Status of semen analysiscomment on A survey on the status of semen analysis in 118 laboratories in China by Jin-Chun Lu et al. in Asian Journal of Andrology

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 115-117

  Baker, Hugh William Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPERM ANTIBODY;

ACCURACY; AUTOIMMUNITY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHINA; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED SEMEN ANALYSIS; EJACULATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LIQUEFACTION; NOTE; PH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; STANDARDIZATION; VISCOSITY; BOOK; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; SPERMATOZOON; STANDARD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CELL SURVIVAL; CHINA; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MANUALS AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 76349112733     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2009.7     Document Type: Note

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