Cadmium Testicular Toxicity in Male Wistar Rats: Protective Roles of Zinc and Magnesium

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 106-115

  Babaknejad, Nasim ^a,b   Bahrami, Somaye ^a   Moshtaghie, Ali Asghar ^a   Nayeri, Hashem ^a   Rajabi, Parvin ^c   Iranpour, Farhad Golshan ^d  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d Isfahan University of Medical Siences   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Magnesium; Testicular toxicity; Zinc

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; MAGNESIUM; MALONALDEHYDE; ZINC;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR TOXICITY; TESTIS; TESTIS DISEASE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; SPERMATOZOON; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; MAGNESIUM; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; ZINC;

EID: 85037972415     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: 15590720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-017-1218-5     Document Type: Article

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