Protection from scrotal hyperthermia in laptop computer users

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 647-651

  Sheynkin, Yefim ^a   Welliver, Robert ^a   Winer, Andrew ^a   Hajimirzaee, Farshid ^a   Ahn, Hongshik ^b   Lee, Kyewon ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

laptop computers; Scrotal hyperthermia; spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTAL HYPERTHERMIA; SCROTUM DISORDER; SITTING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEVER; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCOMPUTERS; POSTURE; SCROTUM; THIGH; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751580277     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.10.013     Document Type: Article

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