Detection of DNA damage in sperm

Male Infertility: Diagnosis and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 225-238

  Henkel, Ralf ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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