Effects of psychological stress on male fertility

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 373-382

  Nargund, Vinod H ^a  

^a HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADOTROPIN INHIBITORY HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE STRESS; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; CHRONIC STRESS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LEYDIG CELL; MALE FERTILITY; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMINAL PLASMA; SERTOLI CELL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYMPATHETIC ADRENAL SYSTEM; COMPLICATION; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TESTIS;

HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SPERMATOGENESIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84936845967     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2015.112     Document Type: Review

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