Serum and seminal plasma ghrelin levels in men with normospermia and dyspermia

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 320-325

  Panidis, Dimitrios ^a   Goulis, Dimitrios G ^a,d   Katsikis, Ilias ^a   Koliakos, George ^a   Georgopoulos, Neoklis A ^b   Diamanti Kandarakis, Evanthia ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d PAPAGEORGIOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dyspermia; Ghrelin; Male infertility; Normospermia; Seminal plasma

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMIOGRAM;

ADULT; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GHRELIN; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PROLACTIN; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 46349084682     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: 14730766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09513590802002551     Document Type: Article

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