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The Effect of Copper from Industrial Emission on the Seminiferous Epithelium in Rams
Author(s) -
Vrzgulová M.,
Bíreš J.,
Vrzgula L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
reproduction in domestic animals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1439-0531
pISSN - 0936-6768
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0531.1993.tb00731.x
Subject(s) - spermiogenesis , sertoli cell , copper , epithelium , flock , germinal epithelium , biology , reproduction , andrology , toxicology , microbiology and biotechnology , spermatogenesis , physiology , chemistry , endocrinology , medicine , ecology , genetics , organic chemistry
Contents: The changes in the testes of adult rams have been followed by methods of light‐and electronmicroscopy after intoxication with copper emitted from a copper plant. In the toxic phase of the disease primarily the germinative epithelium was damaged. The breaking or decay of the cellular membrane with consequent devastation or stagnation of the spermiogenesis was observed. The toxic effect of the copper affects irreversibly not only all the cells of spermiogenesis in the developmental stages, but it damages also the Sertoli cells including the components of the interstitium. These changes participated in the impairment of reproduction in the flock under study.