Role of melatonin in mitigating chemotherapy-induced testicular dysfunction in Wistar rats

Drug and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 137-146

  Madhu, P ^a   Reddy, K Pratap ^a   Reddy, P Sreenivasula ^a  

^a SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Lipid peroxidation; melatonin; PVB; rats; spermatogenesis; steroidogenesis; testis; testosterone

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CATALASE; CISPLATIN; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELATONIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTOSTERONE; VINBLASTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS DISEASE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOLOGY; TESTIS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLEOMYCIN; BODY WEIGHT; CISPLATIN; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MELATONIN; ORGAN SIZE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 84957969629     PISSN: 01480545     EISSN: 15256014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01480545.2015.1055359     Document Type: Article

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