Serum inhibin B levels reflect contralateral testicular damage following unilateral testicular trauma

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-76

  Özkan, Keramettin Uǧur ^a,c   Kücükaydin, Mustafa ^b   Muhtaroǧlu, Sabahattin ^b   Kontaş, Olgun ^b   Karaca, Fahri ^b  

^a KSU Medical School   (Turkey)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^c KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Inhibin B; Testicular trauma

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; HISTOLOGY; LACERATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS INJURY; TUNICA ALBUGINEA; TUNICA VAGINALIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; INHIBINS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0037633397     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071098     Document Type: Article

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