Semen analysis in men from Merida, Venezuela, over a 15-year period

Archives of Andrology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-34

  Tortolero, Ingrid ^a,c   Bellabarba Arata, G ^b   Lozano, R ^b   Bellabarba, C ^b   Cruz, I ^b   Osuna, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b Universidad De Los Andes Facultad de Medicina   (Venezuela)

^c NONE   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Sperm counts; Time related change

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TIME; VENEZUELA;

ADULT; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; VENEZUELA;

EID: 80052621209     PISSN: 01485016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014850199263011     Document Type: Article

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