The human spermatozoon - Not waving but drowning

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 518, Issue , 2003, Pages 85-98

  Aitken, R John ^a   Sawyer, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HEAVY METAL; HERBICIDE; PESTICIDE; SOLVENT;

AZOOSPERMIA; BIRTH DEFECT; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEL CASTILLO SYNDROME; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYO DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE INFERTILITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MUTAGENESIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TESTIS CARCINOMA; TESTIS DISEASE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038269094     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9190-4_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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