Male fertility in space

Acta Urologica Japonica

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 559-563

  Sasaki, Shoichi ^a   Ikeuchi, Takahito ^a   Kamiya, Hiroyuki ^a   Kojima, Yoshiyuki ^a   Umemoto, Yukihiro ^a   Kohri, Kenjiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Microgravity; Preimplantation embryonic development; Sperm motility; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BODY FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MICROGRAVITY; MORULA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 4644248765     PISSN: 00181994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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