Retracted: Genotyping of Tunisian azoospermic men with Sertoli cell-only and maturation arrest

Andrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Hadjkacem Loukil, Lobna ^a   Hadj Kacem, Hassen ^b   Salem, Ikhlass Hadj ^a   Bahloul, Ali ^c   Fakhfakh, Faiza ^a   Ayadi, Hammadi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE SFAX   (Tunisia)

^c HABIB BOURGUIBA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; CAG repeat; genotyping immunhistochemistry; maturation arrest; Sertoli cell only; Y chromosome microdeletions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85135592290     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/J.1439-0272.2010.01088.X     Document Type: TB

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