Possible relationship between seminal plasma inhibin B and spermatogenesis in patients with azoospermia

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 825-829

  El Garem, Yehia F ^a   El Arini, Ali F ^a   El Beheiry, Adel H ^a   Abou Zeid, Sami A ^a   Comhaire, Frank H ^b  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Ghent University Hospital   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Male infertility; Sertoli cell; Testicular sperm extraction; Testis biopsy

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN B;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS BIOPSY;

HUMANS; INHIBINS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEMEN; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 0036869611     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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