Distinct expression pattern of cytokines in semen of men with genital infection and oligo-terato-asthenozoospermia

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 170-175

  Matalliotakis, Ioannis ^a,b   Arici, Aydin ^a,b   Goumenou, Anastasia ^a,b   Koumantakis, Georgios ^a,b   Selam, Belgin ^a,b   Matalliotakis, Georgios ^a,b   Koumantakis, Evgenios ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

IL 11; IL 6; IL 8; Semen; Urogenital infection

Indexed keywords

CD23 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MASTURBATION; MEASUREMENT; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; TERATOOLIGOSPERMIA; VARICOCELE; ADOLESCENT; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTERLEUKINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OLIGOSPERMIA; RECEPTORS, IGE; SEMEN; UROGENITAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036708166     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0897.2002.01086.x     Document Type: Article

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