"Oligospermia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A condition of suboptimal concentration of SPERMATOZOA in the ejaculated SEMEN to ensure successful FERTILIZATION of an OVUM. In humans, oligospermia is defined as a sperm count below 20 million per milliliter semen.
| Descriptor ID |
D009845
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C12.294.365.700.508
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| Concept/Terms |
Oligospermia- Oligospermia
- Hypospermatogenesis
- Hypospermatogeneses
- Low Sperm Count
- Low Sperm Counts
- Sperm Count, Low
- Sperm Counts, Low
- Oligoasthenoteratozoospermia
- Oligoasthenoteratozoospermias
- Oligozoospermia
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Oligospermia" by people in Profiles.
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A proton NMR study of the effect of Mucuna pruriens on seminal plasma metabolites of infertile males. J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2011 Jul 15; 55(5):1060-6.
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1H NMR spectroscopic studies on human seminal plasma: a probative discriminant function analysis classification model. J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2011 Jan 05; 54(1):106-13.
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Estrogen-dependent and -independent estrogen receptor-alpha signaling separately regulate male fertility. Endocrinology. 2009 Jun; 150(6):2898-905.
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Testicular and epididymal percutaneous sperm aspiration in men with either obstructive or nonobstructive azoospermia. Urology. 2003 Aug; 62(2):328-32.
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Identification of seminiferous tubule aberrations and a low incidence of testicular microliths associated with the development of azoospermia. Fertil Steril. 1999 Sep; 72(3):467-71.
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Crossed testicular ectopia: a rare case of knotting of the cords with testicular fusion. Br J Urol. 1998 Jun; 81(6):924-5.
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Successful sperm retrieval by percutaneous epididymal and testicular sperm aspiration. J Urol. 1998 Feb; 159(2):437-40.
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Percutaneous technique for aspiration of sperm from the epididymis and testicle. Tech Urol. 1997; 3(2):81-5.
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High levels of soluble p55-TNF receptors in seminal and prostatic fluids of normal and infertile men. J Urol. 1996 Apr; 155(4):1436-8.
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Male infertility. N Engl J Med. 1995 Jun 29; 332(26):1790; author reply 1791.