Relationship of seminal plasma interleukin (IL) -8 and IL-6 with semen quality

Human Reproduction

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 517-528

  Eggert Kruse, Waltraud ^a,e   Boit, Ruxandra ^b   Rohr, Gerhard ^c   Aufenanger, Johannes ^d,e   Hund, Martina ^a   Strowitzki, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b STD   (Germany)

^c Klinikum Bad Homburg   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complement; Interleukins; Leukocytes; Male fertility; Semen quality

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISEASE MARKER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MALE INFERTILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0035106513     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/16.3.517     Document Type: Article

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