Increased serum inhibin B levels after varicocele treatment

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 775-780

  Pierik, Frank H ^a   Abdesselam, Salem Aït ^a   Vreeburg, Jan T M ^a   Dohle, G R ^a   De Jong, Frank H ^a   Weber, Robertus F A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GERM CELL; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATIC VEIN; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VARICOCELE; VEIN LIGATION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PROSTATIC SECRETORY PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTOSTERONE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0035724033     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2001.01302.x     Document Type: Article

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