The infertile male - Diagnosis

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 133-139

  Check, J H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Implantation defects; Morphology; Motile density; Semen analysis

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

CELL DENSITY; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEMEN; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 33750940565     PISSN: 03906663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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