Is sperm motility maturation affected by static magnetic fields?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 104, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1212-1216

  Tablado, Lourdes ^a   Pérez Sánchez, Francisco ^a   Soler, Caries ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer assisted analysis; Mice; Motility; Sperm maturation; Static magnetism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWIMMING; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA; CAPUT;

EID: 0030447185     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.961041212     Document Type: Article

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