Declining sperm counts

BMJ

Volumn 312, Issue 7029, 1996, Pages 457-458

  de Kretser, D M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ESTROGEN; MERCURY; PESTICIDE;

ACRODYNIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SUBFERTILITY; YOUNG SYNDROME;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTROGENS; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PESTICIDES; SPERM COUNT;

EID: 0030048326     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7029.457     Document Type: Editorial

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