Status of vitamin E and reduced glutathione in semen of oligozoospermic and azoospermic patients

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 225-228

  Bhardwaj, A ^a   Verma, A ^a   Majumdar, S ^a   Khanduja, K L ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Glutathione; Oligospermia; Semen; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; GLUTATHIONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; OLIGOSPERMIA; SPERM;

GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEMEN; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0034279612     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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