Filling time of a lamellar capillary-filling semen analysis chamber is a rapid, precise, and accurate method to assess viscosity of seminal plasma

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 461-465

  Rijnders, Sanne ^a   Bolscher, Jan G M ^b   Mcdonnell, Joseph ^a   Vermeiden, Jan P W ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEJA Products BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; TIME; VISCOMETER; VISCOSITY;

BODILY SECRETIONS; CAPILLARITY; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; SEMEN; VISCOSITY;

EID: 34447337744     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.106.002360     Document Type: Article

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