Study on the origin of seminal leucocytes using split ejaculate technique and the effect of leucocytospermia on sperm characteristics

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 95-100

  Simbini, T ^a   Umapathy, E ^a   Jacobus, E ^a   Tendaupenyu, G ^a   Mbizvo, M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Leucocytes; Sperm characteristics; Split ejaculate

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; CITRIC ACID; FRUCTOSE;

ARTICLE; EPIDIDYMIS; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS;

ADULT; ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CITRIC ACID; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FRUCTOSE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; SEMEN; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0032413525     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000030296     Document Type: Article

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