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Cigarette Smoking Induces Apoptosis in Rat Testis
1 Jan 2002
Abstract excerpt
In a previous studywe demonstrated the deleterious effect of cigarette smoke on spermatogenesis in the testis of peripubertal Sprague-Dawley rats. In this study we investigated the development of apoptosis as a possible contributing factor to the pathogenic mechanism underlying these effects. Peripubertal rats were exposed to cigarette smoke with the Walton Horizontal Smoking Machine. Similarly, age-matched...
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