Effect of metformin on germ cell-specific apoptosis, oxidative stress and epididymal sperm quality after testicular torsion/detorsion in rats

Andrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Ghasemnejad Berenji, M ^a,b,c   Ghazi Khansari, M ^a   Yazdani, I ^a,b   Nobakht, M ^d   Abdollahi, A ^e   Ghasemnejad Berenji, H ^f   Mohajer Ansari, J ^d   Pashapour, S ^c   Dehpour, A R ^a,b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

apoptosis; metformin; oxidative stress; testicular torsion detorsion

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; METFORMIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; CASP3 PROTEIN, RAT; ENZYME ACTIVATOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDIDYMIS; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS TISSUE; TESTIS TORSION; TISSUE LEVEL; TUNEL ASSAY; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS; WISTAR RAT;

AMP-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CATALASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME ACTIVATORS; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; METFORMIN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATIC CORD TORSION; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 85025478552     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/and.12846     Document Type: Article

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