 Oligospermia
"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.
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D009845
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C12.294.365.700.508
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| Concept/Terms |
Oligospermia- Oligospermia
- Oligozoospermia
- Low Sperm Count
- Count, Low Sperm
- Counts, Low Sperm
- Low Sperm Counts
- Sperm Count, Low
- Sperm Counts, Low
- Hypospermatogenesis
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Oligospermia" by people in Profiles.
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Song SH, Chiba K, Ramasamy R, Lamb DJ. Recent advances in the genetics of testicular failure. Asian J Androl. 2016 May-Jun; 18(3):350-5.
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Yatsenko AN, Georgiadis AP, Murthy LJ, Lamb DJ, Matzuk MM. UBE2B mRNA alterations are associated with severe oligozoospermia in infertile men. Mol Hum Reprod. 2013 Jun; 19(6):388-94.
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Pastuszak AW, Lamb DJ. Counting your sperm before they fertilize: are sperm counts really declining? Asian J Androl. 2013 Mar; 15(2):179-83.
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Weedin JW, Bennett RC, Fenig DM, Lamb DJ, Lipshultz LI. Early versus late maturation arrest: reproductive outcomes of testicular failure. J Urol. 2011 Aug; 186(2):621-6.
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Yatsenko AN, Yatsenko SA, Weedin JW, Lawrence AE, Patel A, Peacock S, Matzuk MM, Lamb DJ, Cheung SW, Lipshultz LI. Comprehensive 5-year study of cytogenetic aberrations in 668 infertile men. J Urol. 2010 Apr; 183(4):1636-42.
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Yatsenko AN, Roy A, Chen R, Ma L, Murthy LJ, Yan W, Lamb DJ, Matzuk MM. Non-invasive genetic diagnosis of male infertility using spermatozoal RNA: KLHL10 mutations in oligozoospermic patients impair homodimerization. Hum Mol Genet. 2006 Dec 01; 15(23):3411-9.
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Sato H, Miyamoto T, Yogev L, Namiki M, Koh E, Hayashi H, Sasaki Y, Ishikawa M, Lamb DJ, Matsumoto N, Birk OS, Niikawa N, Sengoku K. Polymorphic alleles of the human MEI1 gene are associated with human azoospermia by meiotic arrest. J Hum Genet. 2006; 51(6):533-540.
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Miyamoto T, Hasuike S, Yogev L, Maduro MR, Ishikawa M, Westphal H, Lamb DJ. Azoospermia in patients heterozygous for a mutation in SYCP3. Lancet. 2003 Nov 22; 362(9397):1714-9.
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Papp G, Lantos J, Moln?r J. [Orchidopexy and fertility]. Z Urol Nephrol. 1981 Jul; 74(7):541-5.
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