Erect posture of humans leads to male infertility, BPH and prostate cancer

Andrologia

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 145-146

  Gat, Y ^a,b   Gornish, M ^a,b   Joshua, S ^a,b  

^a Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGE; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; BODY POSTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MALE INFERTILITY; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; SPERMATIC VEIN; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS INJURY; VARICOCELE; VAS DEFERENS;

HUMANS; MALE; SCROTUM; SPERMATIC CORD; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84860250772     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2011.01233.x     Document Type: Editorial

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