 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
- Hypospermatogenesis
- Hypospermatogeneses
- Low Sperm Count
- Low Sperm Counts
- Sperm Count, Low
- Sperm Counts, Low
- Oligoasthenoteratozoospermia
- Oligoasthenoteratozoospermias
- Oligozoospermia
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| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2003 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 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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Mitchell MJ, Metzler-Guillemain C, Toure A, Coutton C, Arnoult C, Ray PF. Single gene defects leading to sperm quantitative anomalies. Clin Genet. 2017 02; 91(2):208-216.
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Comazzetto S, Di Giacomo M, Rasmussen KD, Much C, Azzi C, Perlas E, Morgan M, O'Carroll D. Oligoasthenoteratozoospermia and infertility in mice deficient for miR-34b/c and miR-449 loci. PLoS Genet. 2014 Oct; 10(10):e1004597.
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Roth LW, Ryan AR, Meacham RB. Clomiphene citrate in the management of male infertility. Semin Reprod Med. 2013 Jul; 31(4):245-50.
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Oury F, Ferron M, Huizhen W, Confavreux C, Xu L, Lacombe J, Srinivas P, Chamouni A, Lugani F, Lejeune H, Kumar TR, Plotton I, Karsenty G. Osteocalcin regulates murine and human fertility through a pancreas-bone-testis axis. J Clin Invest. 2013 Jun; 123(6):2421-33.
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Kusz-Zamelczyk K, Sajek M, Spik A, Glazar R, Jedrzejczak P, Latos-Bielenska A, Kotecki M, Pawelczyk L, Jaruzelska J. Mutations of NANOS1, a human homologue of the Drosophila morphogen, are associated with a lack of germ cells in testes or severe oligo-astheno-teratozoospermia. J Med Genet. 2013 Mar; 50(3):187-93.
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Longepied G, Saut N, Aknin-Seifer I, Levy R, Frances AM, Metzler-Guillemain C, Guichaoua MR, Mitchell MJ. Complete deletion of the AZFb interval from the Y chromosome in an oligozoospermic man. Hum Reprod. 2010 Oct; 25(10):2655-63.
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Meacham RB, Chemes H, Carrell D, Goldstein M. Globozoospermia: is there a role for varicocele repair? J Androl. 2007 Jul-Aug; 28(4):490.
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Perrin J, Metzler-Guillemain C, Karsenty G, Grillo JM, Mitchell MJ, Guichaoua MR. Meiotic arrest at the midpachytene stage in a patient with complete azoospermia factor b deletion of the Y chromosome. Fertil Steril. 2006 Feb; 85(2):494.e5-8.
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Machev N, Saut N, Longepied G, Terriou P, Navarro A, Levy N, Guichaoua M, Metzler-Guillemain C, Collignon P, Frances AM, Belougne J, Clemente E, Chiaroni J, Chevillard C, Durand C, Ducourneau A, Pech N, McElreavey K, Mattei MG, Mitchell MJ. Sequence family variant loss from the AZFc interval of the human Y chromosome, but not gene copy loss, is strongly associated with male infertility. J Med Genet. 2004 Nov; 41(11):814-25.
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Meacham RB. Testicular sperm retrieval in the management of chemotherapy induced azoospermia. J Androl. 2003 Nov-Dec; 24(6):807.
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