Isolated follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) deficiency without mutation of the FSHβ gene and successful treatment with human menopausal gonadotropin

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2012.e17-2012.e19

  Murao, Koji ^a   Imachi, Hitomi ^a   Muraoka, Tomie ^a   Fujiwara, Mako ^a   Kushida, Yoshio ^b   Haba, Reiji ^a,b   Ishida, Toshihiko ^a  

^a Kagawa Medical University   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

azoospermia; FSH; hMG; mutation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE DEFICIENCY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; HEART RATE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 55149122710     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.02.145     Document Type: Article

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