Expression data from adult rat testes treated with 3 mg/kg b.w. cadmium chloride via i.p.. Rattus norvegicus

This is a study to explore the transcriptional changes after cadmium treatment in adult rat testes at three time points (control--0 hour, 8 hour and 4 day). Cadmium is an environmental toxicant that is known to affect the male reproductive system. It disrupts the blood-testis barrier irreversibly, and affects the Sertoli-germ cells adhesion, causing germ cell depletion from the seminiferous epithelium. Keywords: Cadmium effect in rat testes Overall design: Adult Sprague-Dawley rats treated with a single dose of cadmium chloride at 3 mg/kg b.w. by i.p. and terminated after 8 hours (n=2) and 20 hours (n=2). Testes from cadmium-treated rats and untreated (control, 0 hour, n=3) rats were harvested and total RNA were prepared. Standard Affymetrix genechip procedures were followed for the subsequent experiments. Data were analysed in MAS 5.0 and GeneSpring 7.2.