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Male infertility

Europe

• European Association of Urology
  • Guidelines on Male Infertility [2010]

United States of America

• American College of Radiology
  • Hematospermia [2010]

• American Urological Association
  • The Optimal Evaluation of the Infertile Male: Best Practice Statement [2010]
  • The Evaluation of the Azoospermic Male: Best Practice Statement [2010]

• Madigan Army Medical Center
  • Undescended Testicle Referral Guidelines [2009]
  • Male Infertility Referral Guideline [2009]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • The optimal evaluation of the infertile male: AUA best practice statement. American Urological Association Education and Research [2010]
  • The evaluation of the azoospermic male: AUA best practice statement. American Urological Association Education and Research [2010]
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® hematospermia [2010]
  • Cryptorchidism. In: Guidelines on paediatric urology. European Association of Urology [2009]
  • Varicocele in children and adolescents. In: Guidelines on paediatric urology. European Association of Urology [2008]
  • Micropenis. In: Guidelines on paediatric urology. European Association of Urology [2008]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO laboratory manual for the examination and processing of human semen. Fifth edition [2010]

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • Evaluation of the Subfertile Man [2003]
  • The Undescended Testicle: Diagnosis and Management [2000]

• American Journal of Roentgenology
  • Imaging of Male Infertility: Pictorial Review [2009]

• Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia e Metabologia
  • Clinical implications of altered thyroid status in male testicular function [2009]

• Asian Journal of Andrology
  • Semen analysis: a new manual and its application to the understanding of semen and its pathology [2010]
  • Defining laboratory reference values and decision limits: populations, intervals, and interpretations [2010]
  • Male reproductive organs are at risk from environmental hazards [2009]

• Biology of Reproduction
  • Sertoli Cell Tight Junction Dynamics: Their Regulation During Spermatogenesis [2003]

• BMC Public Health
  • Decreasing sperm quality: a global problem? [2010]

• British Medical Journal
  • Male subfertility [2003]

• Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Sperm DNA damage: clinical significance in the era of assisted reproduction [2006]

• Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
  • The Undescended Testis: Diagnosis, Treatment and Long-Term Consequences [2009]

• Endocrine Reviews
  • Androgen Receptor Roles in Spermatogenesis and Fertility: Lessons from Testicular Cell-Specific Androgen Receptor Knockout Mice [2009]
  • Role of Hormones, Genes, and Environment in Human Cryptorchidism [2008]

• Epigenetics
  • Perturbation of genomic imprinting in oligozoospermia [2009]

• European Journal of Endocrinology
  • Undescended testes: a consensus on management [2008]
  • Factors controlling testis descent [2008]

• Human Molecular Genetics
  • Noonan syndrome and related disorders: dysregulated RAS-mitogen activated protein kinase signal transduction [2006]

• Human Reproduction
  • Histological evaluation of the human testis--approaches to optimizing the clinical value of the assessment: Mini Review [2007]

• Human Reproduction Update
  • The AZFc region of the Y chromosome: at the crossroads between genetic diversity and male infertility [2010]
  • Paternal age and reproduction [2009]
  • Male infertility and the involvement of the X chromosome [2009]
  • Oxidative stress and male infertility--a clinical perspective [2008]
  • Epidemiology and pathogenesis of cryptorchidism [2008]
  • Effects of environmental and occupational pesticide exposure on human sperm: a systematic review [2008]
  • Cytogenetic determinants of male fertility [2008]
  • Globozoospermia revisited [2007]
  • Towards a better understanding of RNA carriage by ejaculate spermatozoa [2006]
  • Protamines and male infertility [2006]
  • AZF deletions and Y chromosomal haplogroups: history and update based on sequence [2005]
  • Sperm pathology: a step beyond descriptive morphology. Origin, characterization and fertility potential of abnormal sperm phenotypes in infertile men [2003]

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Oxidative stress & male infertility [2009]

• International Journal of Andrology
  • An evolutionary perspective on Y-chromosomal variation and male infertility [2008]

• Journal of Andrology
  • Regulation of Male Fertility by X-Linked Genes [2009]
  • Considerations in Evaluating Human Spermatogenesis on the Basis of Total Sperm per Ejaculate [2009]
  • Are Tests of Sperm DNA Damage Clinically Useful? Pros and Cons [2009]
  • The Clinical Implementation of Sperm Chromosome Aneuploidy Testing: Pitfalls and Promises [2008]
  • Obesity and Male Reproductive Potential [2006]
  • Infertility Caused by Polymorphisms or Mutations in Spermatogenesis-Specific Genes [2006]
  • Why the WHO Recommendations for Eosin-Nigrosin Staining Techniques for Human Sperm Vitality Assessment Must Change [2005]
  • Prevention of Oxidative Stress Injury to Sperm [2005]

• Journal of Biology
  • The human spermatozoon - a stripped down but refined machine [2009]

• Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
  • Genetic Dissection of the AZF Regions of the Human Y Chromosome: Thriller or Filler for Male (In)fertility? [2010]

• Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Approach to the Infertile Man [2007]

• Journal of Molecular Endocrinology
  • The renin-angiotensin system and male reproduction: new functions for old hormones [2003]

• Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine
  • Effects of Spinal Cord Injury on Semen Parameters [2008]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Male reproductive health and the environment [2006]

• Molecular Human Reproduction
  • Toxicants and human sperm chromatin integrity [2010]
  • Do heat stress and deficits in DNA repair pathways have a negative impact on male fertility? [2008]

• Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  • Noonan syndrome [2007]

• Pediatric Blood & Cancer
  • Male Gonadal Toxicity [2009]

• Reproduction
  • Unravelling the genetics of spermatogenic failure [2010]
  • Epigenetic regulation in male germ cells [2008]
  • Is sperm evaluation useful in predicting human fertility? [2007]
  • Concepts in sperm heterogeneity, sperm selection and sperm competition as biological foundations for laboratory tests of semen quality [2004]

• Reproductive Biology
  • Cryptorchidism and long-term consequences [2010]

• Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
  • Spermatozoal sensitive biomarkers to defective protaminosis and fragmented DNA [2007]
  • Lifestyle impact and the biology of the human scrotum [2007]
  • Is there a relationship between sperm chromosome abnormalities and sperm morphology? [2006]
  • Reactive oxygen species in spermatozoa: methods for monitoring and significance for the origins of genetic disease and infertility [2005]
  • Understanding spermatogenesis is a prerequisite for treatment [2003]

• Revista do Hospital das Clinicas
  • Measuring male infertility: epidemiological aspects [2003]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Genetics of human male infertility [2009]

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Management of cryptorchidism in children: guidelines [2008]

• Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
  • Cadmium-induced Testicular Injury [2009]

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