Semen quality changes among 2343 healthy Slovenian men included in an IVF-ET programme from 1983 to 1996

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 178-183

  Zorn, Branko ^a   Virant Klun, Irma ^a   Verdenik, Ivan ^a   Meden Vrtovec, Helena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Semen characteristics; Socio economic crisis; Stress; Year of birth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SLOVENIA; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMIOGRAM;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SLOVENIA; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0033013438     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2605.1999.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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