Relationship between sleeping posture and fluctuations in nocturnal scrotal temperature

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 433-438

  Jung, Andreas ^a   Hofstötter, Jan Philip ^a   Schuppe, Hans Christian ^a   Schill, Wolf Bernhard ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genital heat stress; Infertility; Oligozoospermia; Scrotal temperature; Semen quality; Testicular hyperthermia; Testicular temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; OLIGOSPERMIA; RISK FACTOR; SCROTUM; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0038103032     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6238(03)00046-7     Document Type: Article

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