Assessment of male factor

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 739-746

  Pacey, Allan A ^a  

^a Academic Unit of Reproductive and Developmental Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

andrology; male fertility; semen analysis; sperm DNA; sperm function

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID;

ACROSOME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROFLUIDICS; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM FUNCTION TEST; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANDROLOGY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84867885595     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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