Relationship between substances in seminal plasma and Acrobeads Test* results

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 179-184

  Komori, Kazuhiko ^a   Tsujimura, Akira ^a   Okamoto, Yoshio ^b   Matsuoka, Yasuhiro ^a   Takao, Tetsuya ^a   Miyagawa, Yasushi ^a   Takada, Shingo ^a   Nonomura, Norio ^a   Okuyama, Akihiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Okamoto Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrobeads Test; insulin like growth factor I; macrophage migration inhibitory factor; seminal plasma; sperm function

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR; MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ABSTINENCE; ACROBEAD TEST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; CALCITONIN; CELL ADHESION; EJACULATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; INTERLEUKIN-6; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION-INHIBITORY FACTORS; MALE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-6; SEMEN; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 57849083629     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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