Transcriptional levels of four Y chromosome-linked AZF genes in azoospermic men and their association with successful sperm retrieval

Urology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 131-136

  Kuo, Pao Lin ^b   Lin, Ying Hung ^b   Teng, Yen Ni ^b   Hsu, Chao Chin ^b   Lin, Johnny Shinn Nan ^b   Lin, Yung Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEINASE; RNA; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL MATURATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH DISORDER; HISTOLOGY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KARYOTYPE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; SAMPLING; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEADY STATE; TESTIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0742306935     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2003.08.048     Document Type: Article

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