The presence of germ cells in the semen of azoospermic, cryptozoospermic and severe oligozoospermic patients: Stringent flow cytometric analysis and correlations with hormonal status

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 767-775

  Yeung, C H ^a   Beiglbock Karau L ^a   Tuttelmann F ^a   Nieschlag, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL POPULATION; CRYPTOZOOSPERMIA; DIPLOIDY; EJACULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GERM CELL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MITOCHONDRION; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON; STAINING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; DNA; ESTRADIOL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIA; OLIGOSPERMIA; PLOIDIES; PROLACTIN; SEMEN; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOZOA; STAINING AND LABELING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 35448957257     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02961.x     Document Type: Article

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