Trends in semen quality in a non-industrialized population from the Salamanca area, Spain, during the last 30 years;Evolución de la calidad seminal en una población no industrializada procedente de Salamanca durante los últimos treinta años

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 277-283

  Corrales, Juan José ^a   Cordero, Mar ^a   Galindo, Purificación ^b   Burgo, Rosa María ^a   Hernández, Jerónimo ^b   Manuel Miralles, José ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Semen analysis; Semen quality; Sperm counts; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPAIN; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPAIN; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 79952818027     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2010.05.031     Document Type: Article

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