Assessment of seminal plasma laminin in fertile and infertile men

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-67

  El dakhly, Mohamed R ^a   Tawadrous, Gamil A ^a   Mostafa, Taymour ^a   Roaia, Mohamed M F ^a   El nashar, Abdel R M ^a   Shedeed, Shedeed A ^a   Kamel, Ihab I ^a   Aziz, Amal A ^a   El mohtaseb, Yasser ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Basement membrane; Congenital bilateral absent vas deferens; Laminin; Male infertility; Semen; Seminal plasma; Testis

Indexed keywords

LAMININ;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LAMININ; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 33846015862     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2007.00234.x     Document Type: Article

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