Retraction: Research Article Flavocoxid Protects Against Cadmium-Induced Disruption of the Blood-Testis Barrier and Improves Testicular Damage and Germ Cell Impairment in Mice (Toxicological Sciences (2015) 148: 1 (311-329) DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfv185);Research article flavocoxid protects against cadmium-induced disruption of the blood-testis barrier and improves testicular damage and germ cell impairment in mice

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 311-329

  Minutoli, Letteria ^a   Micali, Antonio ^b   Pisani, Antonina ^b   Puzzolo, Domenico ^b   Bitto, Alessandra ^a   Rinaldi, Mariagrazia ^a   Pizzino, Gabriele ^a   Irrera, Natasha ^a   Galfo, Federica ^a   Arena, Salvatore ^a   Pallio, Giovanni ^a   Mecchio, Anna ^a   Germanà, Antonino ^b   Bruschetta, Daniele ^b   Laurà, Rosaria ^b   Magno, Carlo ^b   Marini, Herbert ^a   Squadrito, Francesco ^a   Altavilla, Domenica ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c Gynaecological Microbiological and Biomedical Sciences   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flavocoxid; Germ cells; Light microscopy; p ERK 1 2; Seminiferous tubules; TNF

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CLAUDIN 11; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FLAVOCOXID; FLAVONOID; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; LEUKOTRIENE B4; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALONALDEHYDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; OCCLUDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIOXIDANT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADHERIN; CATECHIN; CDH2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; DRUG COMBINATION; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OCLN PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL JUNCTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GERM CELL; LEYDIG CELL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TESTIS INJURY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TUNEL ASSAY; VASODILATATION; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; C57BL MOUSE; CADMIUM POISONING; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; INFERTILITY, MALE; METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TIGHT JUNCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; CADHERINS; CADMIUM POISONING; CATECHIN; DRUG COMBINATIONS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OCCLUDIN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 84947741717     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfac090     Document Type: Erratum

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