Growth hormone (GH) therapy markedly increases the motility of spermatozoa and the concentration of insulin-like growth factor-I in seminal vesicle fluid in the male GH-deficient dwarf rat

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 4061-4064

  Breier, Bernhard H ^a   Vickers, Mark H ^a   Gravance, Curtis G ^a   Casey, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE; RECOMBINANT SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DWARFISM; EPIDIDYMIS; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SUBFERTILITY; TESTIS WEIGHT; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0029791923     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.9.8756586     Document Type: Article

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