Success of acupuncture treatment in patients with initially low sperm output is associated with a decrease in scrotal skin temperature

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 200-208

  Siterman, Shimon ^a,b   Eltes, Fina ^c   Schechter, Liora ^a   Maimon, Yair ^b   Lederman, Hanny ^c   Bartoov, Benjamin ^c  

^a Maccabi Fund Complementary Medicine   (Israel)

^b Refuot Integrative Medical Center   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENITAL TRACT INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SCROTUM DISORDER; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; MALE INFERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SCROTUM; THERMOREGULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; REFERENCE VALUES; SCROTUM; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69249214280     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2008.4     Document Type: Article

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