Unexplained male infertility is a diagnosis reserved for men in whom routine semen analyses results are within normal values and physical as well as endocrine abnormalities were ruled out. In addition to erectile problems and coital factors, immunologic causes and sperm dysfunction may contribute to such condition. New etiologies of unexplained male infertility include low level leukocytospermi...

Infertility affects approximately a quarter of all couples. Of these cases, roughly half are due to male factors. However, more than 50% of the causes of male factor infertility are still obscure. Contemporary Andrology includes a thorough analysis of the sperm looking at the cellular and subcellular imperfections which may have an adverse effect on fertility. Defects in DNA and chromatin struc...

Assuring the highest possible quality of care to the patient is the first goal of the andrology laboratory. Quality control and quality assurance as they apply to the andrology laboratory are outlined, and special problems in quality control for sperm function assays are addressed. An example of the patient review process is presented. Quality of care also depends on the ability of the laborato...

Department of Urology and Andrology [P. S.], Oncological Center [R. J.], and Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine [S. S., T. O.] Umeå University Hospital, 901 85 Umeå, Sweden; International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France [R. K.]; Institute of Clinical Biochemistry, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway [R. G., E. J.]; and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Helsinki University Ce...

Peter Pantke , Thorsten Diemer , Marcelo Marconi , Martin Bergmann , Klaus Steger , Hans-Christian Schuppe , Wolfgang Weidner * Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany b Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany Centre for Dermatology and Andrology, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany e u r...

Department of Urology, Korea University Guro Hospital, 148 Gurodong-ro, Guro-gu, Seoul 08308, Korea. Tel: +82-2-2626-3201, Fax: +82-2-2626-1321, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2018 Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-...

Correspondence to: Hyun Jun Park Department of Urology, Pusan National University School of Medicine, 179 Gudeok-ro, Seo-gu, Busan 49241, Korea. Tel: +82-51-240-7351, Fax: +82-51-247-5443, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2017 Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licens...

Chen Chu1,2, Aijie Xin1,3,4, Yuchuan Zhou1, and Yonglian Zhang1,3* Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Andrology, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China Shanghai Institute...

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