The association between leukocytes and sperm quality is concentration dependent

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lackner, Jakob E ^a   Agarwal, Ashok ^b   Mahfouz, Reda ^b   du Plessis, Stefan S ^c   Schatzl, Georg ^d  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MIDPIECE; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; CELL COUNT; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; CELL SHAPE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 77649121682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-8-12     Document Type: Article

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