The concentration of nitrite in seminal plasma does not correlate with sperm concentration, sperm motility, leukocytospermia, or sperm culture

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 496-500

  Revelli, Alberto ^a   Bergandi, Loredana ^a   Massobrio, Marco ^a   Lindblom, Bo ^b   Bosia, Amalia ^a   Ghigo, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Leukocytospermia; Nitric oxide; Nitrite; Seminal plasma; Sperm culture; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; NITRITES; OLIGOSPERMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0034883094     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(01)01958-6     Document Type: Article

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