Induction of spermatogenesis by rhFSH for azoospermia due to spermatogenic dysfunction with maturation arrest: five case series

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 168-170

  Kobori, Yoshitomo ^a   Suzuki, Keisuke ^a   Iwahata, Toshiyuki ^a   Shin, Takeshi ^a   Sato, Ryo ^a   Nishio, Kojiro ^a   Yagi, Hiroshi ^a   Arai, Gaku ^a   Soh, Shigehiro ^a   Okada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Maturation arrest; Recombinant human follicle stimulating hormone; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE STUDY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; FERTILITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MICRODISSECTION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN VOLUME; SPERM; SPERMATOCYTE MATURATION ARREST; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; DRUG EFFECTS;

AZOOSPERMIA; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84930145007     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2015.1024897     Document Type: Article

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