Treatment of traditional Chinese medicine for idiopathic male infertility

Acta Urologica Japonica

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 545-548

  Furuya, Yuzo ^a   Akashi, Takuya ^a   Fuse, Hideki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Idiopathic male infertility; Sho; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

BU ZHONG YI QI TANG;

CHINESE MEDICINE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; REVIEW; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANTIGENS, CD95; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT;

EID: 4644235622     PISSN: 00181994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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