Seminal androgen concentrations and residual sperm cytoplasm

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-18

  Laudat, Antoine ^a   Guechot, Jérôme ^b   Palluel, Anne Marie ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DU BOCAGE   (France)

^b Lab de Biochimie Hormonologie   (France)

Author keywords

4 androstenedione; Cytoplasm droplet; Dihydrotestosterone; Seminal plasma; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ADULT; ANDROGENS; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CYTOPLASM; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0031812823     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(98)00090-4     Document Type: Article

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