Empirical Drug Therapy for Idiopathic Male Infertility: What is the New Evidence?

Urology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1065-1075

  Garg, Harshit ^a   Kumar, Rajeev ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ARGININE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CARNITINE; CAROTENOID; GLUTATHIONE; GONADOTROPIN; LYCOPENE; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; UBIDECARENONE; UBIQUINONE;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ARGININE; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; CARNITINE; CAROTENOIDS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; UBIQUINONE; VITAMIN E;

EID: 84955638859     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2015.07.030     Document Type: Review

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