Evaluation of semen variables, sperm chromosomal abnormalities and reproductive endocrine profile in patients with chronic hepatitis C

BJU International

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-86

  Safarinejad, Mohammad Reza ^a   Kolahi, Ali Asghar ^a   Iravani, Shahrokh ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AJA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C; Hormones; Hypothalamic pituitary testis axis; Male; Semen

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISOMY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATITIS C; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; KARYOTYPE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 72149109811     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.08720.x     Document Type: Article

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