Testicular Damage Caused by Inhalation of Ethylene Oxide in Rats: Light and Electron Microscopic Studies

Abstract

Although testicular damage caused by ethylene oxide vapor (EtO)

Effect of vasectomy on the seminiferous tubule boundary zone in the Albino Swiss rat

“…Collagen fibrils (f) lie between the seminiferous epithelial and inner myoid cell basal laminae. Scale bar ϭ 5 m. Saxena et al, 1989;Kaido et al, 1992), experimental allergic orchitis (Doncel et al, 1989), and vitamin deficiencies (Ismail and Morales, 1992) can produce degeneration of the testis in the rat. At least some of these, including doxorubicin treatment (Fuse et al, 1992) and experimental allergic orchitis (Doncel et al, 1989), produce changes in the boundary zone.…”