Cigarette smoking and the risk of male infertility

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 3870-3874

  Hosseinzadeh Colagar, Abasalt ^a   Jorsaraee, G A ^b   Tahmasbpour Marzony, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAZANDARAN   (Iran)

^b BABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Male infertility; Smoker and nonsmoker men; Sperm parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849013492     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2007.3870.3874     Document Type: Article

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