Using curcumin to prevent structural impairments of testicles in rats induced by sodium metabisulfite

@article{Mahmoudi2017UsingCT,
  title={Using curcumin to prevent structural impairments of testicles in rats induced by sodium metabisulfite},
  author={Reza Mahmoudi and Zahra Honarmand and Saied Karbalay-Doust and Mehrzad Jafari-Barmak and Mohsen Nikseresht and Ali Noorafshan},
  journal={EXCLI Journal},
  year={2017},
  volume={16},
  pages={583 - 592},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:21592820}
}
CUR (100 mg/kg/day) could prevent structural impairments of testicles in the rats induced by Na-MBS (7 and 70 mg/ kg/day); the acceptable daily intake of Na- MBS for 7 weeks did not affect on testicular parameters.
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