52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, 2-6 November 1996: Distinct expression of cytokines and mitogenic inhibitory factors in semen of fertile and infertile men

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 304-309

  Huleihel, Mahmoud ^b   Levy, Ayelet ^b   Lunenfeld, Eitan ^b   Horowitz, Shula ^a   Potashnik, Gad ^b   Glezerman, Marek ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Con A; IL 1; LPS; Male infertility; Seminal plasma; Sperm cells

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MITOGENIC AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ASTHENOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOASSAY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LYSATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MITOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPLEEN CELL; SUPERNATANT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; FERTILITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINES; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTERLEUKIN-1; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICE; MITOGENS; SEMEN; SPERMATOZOA; SPLEEN;

EID: 0031111289     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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