Relationship between seminal plasma-soluble transferrin receptor and spermatogenesis in azoospermic patients

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2003, Pages 1668-1669

  El Garem, Yehia F ^b   Depuydt, Christophe E ^c   El Arini, Ali F ^b   El Beheiry, Adel H ^b   Abou Zeid, Sami A ^b   Comhaire, Frank H ^a,d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c Laboratory of Clinical Biology   (Belgium)

^d Ghent University Hospital   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 (2 HYDROXYETHYL) 1 PIPERAZINEETHANESULFONIC ACID; FOLLITROPIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; N 1387; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ACCURACY; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SECRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LETTER; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SERTOLI CELL; SOLUBILITY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VASECTOMY;

EID: 0038172492     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(03)00342-X     Document Type: Letter

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