Vitamin D and male reproduction

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 175-186

  Jensen, Martin Blomberg ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1,25 DIHYDROXYERGOCALCIFEROL; 25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; AROMATASE; CALCITRIOL; COLECALCIFEROL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 23; INHIBIN B; KLOTHO PROTEIN; OSTEOCALCIN; TESTOSTERONE; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR; 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCITRIOL RECEPTOR; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; HYPOCALCEMIA; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS FUNCTION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN D METABOLISM; ANIMAL; FERTILITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, CALCITRIOL; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; VITAMIN D;

EID: 84905730742     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2013.262     Document Type: Review

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