Impact of seasonal variation, age and smoking status on human semen parameters: The Massachusetts General Hospital experience

Journal of Experimental and Clinical Assisted Reproduction

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Chen, Zuying ^a   Godfrey Bailey, Linda ^b   Schiff, Isaac ^a   Hauser, Russ ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIENCE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPRING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

EID: 15544381222     PISSN: 17431050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-1050-1-2     Document Type: Article

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