Quercetin attenuates carbon tetrachloride-induced testicular damage in rats

Andrologia

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 848-858

  Sonmez M ^a   Turk G ^a   Ceribasi S ^a   Ciftci M ^a   Yuce A ^a   Guvenc M ^a   Ozer Kaya S ^a   Cay M ^a   Aksakal, M ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; carbon tetrachloride; lipid peroxidation; quercetin; spermatozoa testis

Indexed keywords

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; QUERCETIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS TISSUE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 85007240690     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/and.12159     Document Type: Article

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