title: [Immunomorphologic changes in the testes upon exposure to a microwave electromagnetic field].
abstract: The experiments have been performed on 77 mature male rabbits. Light and electron microscopic, as well as immunofluorescent methods have demonstrated that a single local application of superhigh-frequent electromagnetic field of nonthermal intensity to the testes results in structural disturbance and in disorders of permeability of the hemato-testicular barrier, in ultrastructural changes of the tunica propria of the convoluted seminiferous tubules, and is accompanied with the development of auto-immune process in the testes; that causes certain distrophic changes in the spermatogenic epithelium and destruction of sex cells, predominantly those at the latest developmental stages. According to individual sensitivity, 3 groups of the animals have been revealed that variously respond to the damaging effect of the superhigh-frequency electromagnetic field. The damaging effect is produced by two immunologic mechanisms-humoral (antibodies) and cellular (sensitized lymphocytes).
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001284:Atrophy; D001323:Autoantibodies; D002199:Capillary Permeability / Q000528:radiation effects; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006968:Hypersensitivity, Delayed / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008872:Microwaves / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011817:Rabbits; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000528:radiation effects; D013737:Testis / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology / Q000528:radiation effects*
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies
vernacular_title: Immunomorfologicheskie izmeneniia semennikov pri deĭstvii sverkhvysokochastotnogo élektromagnitnogo polia.