Androgen receptor expression relationship with semen variables in infertile men with varicocele

Journal of Urology

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2243-2247

  Zalata, Adel A ^a   Mokhtar, Naglaa ^a   Badawy, Abd El Naser ^a   Othman, Gamal ^a   Alghobary, Moheiddin ^a   Mostafa, Taymour ^b  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

androgen; infertility; male; receptors; spermatozoa; testis; varicocele

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN;

ACROSOME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84877626119     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2012.11.112     Document Type: Article

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