Seasonality in human semen quality of smokers and non-smokers: Effect of temperature

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 243-247

  Künzle, Robert ^a   Mueller, Michael D ^a   Huber, Alexander W ^a   Drescher, Heinz ^b   Bersinger, Nick A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MCL Laboratories   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fertility; Seasonal temperature; Smoking; Sperm quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBFERTILITY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ADULT; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEASONS; SEMEN; SMOKING; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 4444269493     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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