Semen quality of 1346 healthy men, results from the Chongqing area of southwest China

Human Reproduction

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 459-469

  Li, Yafei ^a   Lin, Hui ^a   Ma, Mingfu ^b   Li, Lianbing ^b   Cai, Min ^b   Zhou, Niya ^a   Han, Xue ^a   Bao, Huaqiong ^b   Huang, Liping ^c   Zhu, Caizhong ^a   Li, Chuanhai ^b   Yang, Hao ^b   Rao, Zhonglin ^a   Xiang, Ying ^a   Cui, Zhihong ^a   Ao, Lin ^a   Zhou, Ziyuan ^a   Xiong, Hongyan ^a   Cao, Jia ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chongqing Institute of Science and Technology for Population and Family Planning   (China)

^c Chongqing Shapingba Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Healthy men; Risk factor; Semen parameters; Semen quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 58449123887     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/den399     Document Type: Article

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