Fertility and Sterility
Volume 86, Issue 4, Supplement , Pages 1097-1105 , October 2006

In vivo spermatotoxic effect of chromium as reflected in the epididymal epithelial principal cells, basal cells, and intraepithelial macrophages of a nonhuman primate (Macaca radiata Geoffroy)

  • Mariajoseph Michael Aruldhas, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrinology, Dr. ALM Post-Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras, Taramani Campus, Chennai, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Mariajoseph Michael Aruldhas, Ph.D., Department of Endocrinology, Dr. ALM Post-Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras, Taramani Campus, Chennai 600113, India (FAX: 91-44-24926709).
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  • Senthivinayagam Subramanian, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrinology, Dr. ALM Post-Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras, Taramani Campus, Chennai, India
    • Present address: Texas A & M University System Health Science Center, Temple, Texas, USA
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  • Pasupathi Sekhar, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrinology, Dr. ALM Post-Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras, Taramani Campus, Chennai, India
    • ,
  • Ganapathi Vengatesh, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrinology, Dr. ALM Post-Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras, Taramani Campus, Chennai, India
    • ,
  • Peranaidu Govindarajulu, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrinology, Dr. ALM Post-Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras, Taramani Campus, Chennai, India
    • ,
  • Mohammad Abdulkader Akbarsha, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Animal Science, School of Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India

Received 24 December 2005 ,Revised 17 March 2006 ,Accepted 17 March 2006.

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 Supported by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi (grant 60(00222)/97/EMR II, to M.M.A.); by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, under the Fund for Improvement of Science and Technology program (SR/FST/LSI-206/200 and SR/FST/LSI-112/2002); and by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India, under the Special Assistance program (F.3-1/99(SAP-III)).

PII: S0015-0282(06)01096-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.03.025

Fertility and Sterility
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