The medical and cultural history of testosterone and the testes

Testosterone: Action, Deficiency, Substitution, Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a   Nieschlag, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139003353.002     Document Type: Chapter

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