Human seminal plasma nitric oxide: Correlation with sperm morphology and testosterone

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Huang, Ivan ^a   Jones, Jeff ^b   Khorram, Omid ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthenospermia; Nitric oxide; Oligospermia; Seminal plasma; Teratospermia; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; HUMANS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEMEN; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33644693484     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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