Vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors male fertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 269-275

  Wojta, Johann ^a   Feichtinger, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Fertility; Spermatozoa; Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, MALE; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0033180063     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00234-4     Document Type: Article

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