Long term evaluation of morphometric and ultrastructural changes of testes of alloxan-induced diabetic rats

PURPOSE: To evaluate in a long term the morphometric and ultrastructural changes in seminiferous tubules (ST) of normal and diabetic rats, and to correlate any changes with animal age and diabetes duration. METHODS: Sixty male Wistar rats, three months-old, were randomly divided into two groups: 30...

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Main Authors: Amélia Arcângela Teixeira Trindade, Antônio Caetano Pereira Simões, Reinaldo José Silva, Célia Sperandeo Macedo, César Tadeu Spadella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Cirurgia 2013-04-01
Series:Acta Cirurgica Brasileira
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-86502013000400005