Relationship of acrosin activity to sperm function tests

Andrologia

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 103-108

  Nakagawa, H ^a   Okada, H ^a   Fujisawa, M ^a   Matsumoto, O ^a   Kamidono, S ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

acrosin activity; hamster test; human; sperm function test; unexplained infertility

Indexed keywords

ACROSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION;

EID: 0030940107     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.1997.tb00471.x     Document Type: Article

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