Male infertility: Molecular pathologies and new therapeutic approaches;Infertilite masculine: Des anomalies moleculaires aux possibilites therapeutiques

Medecine/Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 307-315

  Siffroi, Jean Pierre ^a   Le Bourhis, Corine ^a   Krausz, Csilla ^b   Dadoune, Jean Pierre ^a   Fellous, Marc ^b  

^a HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; REVIEW; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034115846     PISSN: 07670974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4267/10608/1648     Document Type: Review

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