Determination of interleukin-11 in seminal plasma and elevated IL-11 in seminal plasma of infertile patients with urogenital infection

Archives of Andrology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 177-183

  Matalliotakis, I ^a,c   Kyriakou, D ^a   Fragouli, Y ^b   Loutradis, D ^b   Goumenou, A ^a   Koumantakis, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

IL 11; Infertility; Seminal plasma; Urogenital infection

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 11;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMIOGRAM; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 79961195722     PISSN: 01485016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01485019808994889     Document Type: Article

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