Role of the AZFd locus in spermatogenesis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 519-522

  Müslümanoǧlu, Muhammed Hamza ^a   Turgut, Mehmet ^a   Çilingir, Oǧuz ^a   Can, Cavit ^a   Özyürek, Yusuf ^a   Artan, Sevilhan ^a  

^a OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME NOR; FATHER; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATIENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREVALENCE; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 23744437709     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.02.024     Document Type: Article

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