Poster
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6th Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences |
Robert Toman(1), Peter Massanyi(2), Norbert Lukac(3)
(1)(2)(3)Slovak Agricultural University - Nitra. Slovakia
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Cadmium was revealed as a toxic element for a reproductive system in many experimental works using the histological methods of investigation (1,2,3,4,10). It causes the severe damage of capillary system of the testis and then the spermatogenesis is ceased. It is known that after intraperitoneal application of cadmium chloride the testes undergo rapid necrosis. The gonads are more rapidly damaged after the intravenous application of cadmium. Cadmium is in that case directly carried to the target organs.
The testis failure rises also after the oral administration, as we have described in our previous experiments on rabbit (10). The destruction of the testes depends on the dose used in the experiment or the duration of the experiment. Cadmium is cumulative element and when the harmful level of this metal is reached in organism, or in concrete organ, i.e. testis, it works toxic. Cadmium causes also changes in the female sexual organs (4-8). To reveal some characteristic signs of cadmium effects on the testis we aimed at the scanning electron microscope technique.
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