Therapy with growth hormone: Major prospects for the treatment of male subfertility?

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 45, Issue SUPPL., 1998, Pages

  Breier, Bernhard H ^a   Vickers, Mark H ^a   Gravance, Curtis G ^a   Casey, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FERTILIZATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 0031864191     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.45.suppl_s53     Document Type: Article

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