Andrology lab corner: One semen sample or 2? Insights from a study of fertile men

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 638-643

  Stokes Riner, Abbie ^a,f   Thurston, Sally W ^a   Brazil, Charlene ^b   Guzick, David ^a   Liu, Fan ^a   Overstreet, James W ^b   Wang, Christina ^c   Sparks, Amy ^d   Redmon, J Bruce ^e   Swan, Shanna H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; CYTOLOGY; FERTILITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT;

EID: 34548637937     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.107.002741     Document Type: Article

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