 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.
| 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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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Oligospermia" by people in Profiles.
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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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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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Meacham RB. Testicular sperm retrieval in the management of chemotherapy induced azoospermia. J Androl. 2003 Nov-Dec; 24(6):807.
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Lloyd G, Case JR, De Frias D, Brannigan RE. Trichomonas vaginalis orchitis with associated severe oligoasthenoteratospermia and hypogonadism. J Urol. 2003 Sep; 170(3):924.
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Meacham RB. Criteria for determining that a vasectomy has succeeded. J Androl. 2003 Jul-Aug; 24(4):494-5.
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Kumar TR, Wiseman AL, Kala G, Kala SV, Matzuk MM, Lieberman MW. Reproductive defects in gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase-deficient mice. Endocrinology. 2000 Nov; 141(11):4270-7.
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Meacham RB. Testis biopsy augments the infertility workup. Contemp Urol. 1992 Mar; 4(3):63-70.
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