Andrology: Effects of multiple ejaculations after extended periods of sexual abstinence on total, motile and normal sperm numbers, as well as accessory gland secretions, from healthy normal and oligozoospermic men

Human Reproduction

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1993, Pages 1251-1258

  Cooper, T G ^a   Keck, C ^a   Oberdieck, U ^a   Nieschlag, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abstinence; Accessory gland secretions; Multiple ejaculations; Oligozoospermia

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSIDASE; ZINC;

ABSTINENCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADULT; EJACULATION; FRUCTOSE; GENITALIA, MALE; GLUCOSIDASES; HUMAN; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; ZINC;

EID: 0027261072     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a138236     Document Type: Article

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