The relationship between seminal plasma zinc levels and high molecular weight zinc binding protein and sperm motility in Iraqi infertile men

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 485-489

  Abdul Rasheed, Omar F ^a  

^a Al Nahrain University College of Medicine   (Iraq)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC; ZINC BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEMEN; SPERM MOTILITY; ZINC;

EID: 67149143264     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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