Adolescents with varicocele have an impaired sperm-zona pellucida binding capacity [6]

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1339-1340

  Cedenho, Agnaldo Pereira ^a   Spaine, Deborah Montagnini ^a   Barradas, Valéria ^a   Srougi, Miguel ^a   Oehninger, Sergio ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b The Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BINDING ASSAY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; EPIDIDYMITIS; FERTILIZATION; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETTER; MALE; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS ATROPHY; URETHRITIS; VARICOCELE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ADOLESCENT; HUMANS; MALE; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; VARICOCELE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0036903393     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04391-1     Document Type: Letter

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