Falling sperm counts twenty years on: Where are we now?

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 204-207

  John Aitken, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

EVOLUTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NOTE; POVERTY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS CANCER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM COUNT; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84874614300     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2012.167     Document Type: Note

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