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SEMINAL PROSTAGLANDINS AND FERTILITY
Author(s) -
BRUMMER HILARY C.,
GILLESPIE ARNOLD
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
clinical endocrinology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1365-2265
pISSN - 0300-0664
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2265.1972.tb00406.x
Subject(s) - vasectomy , semen , fertility , infertility , prostaglandin , sterilization (economics) , endocrinology , medicine , male fertility , andrology , population , gynecology , biology , research methodology , family planning , pregnancy , environmental health , foreign exchange , monetary economics , economics , genetics , foreign exchange market
SUMMARY The levels of prostaglandins E, A, and 19 hydroxy A in samples of seminal fluid collected from men attending a fertility clinic have been estimated spectrophotometrically and compared with levels found in samples from fertile men undergoing sterilization by vasectomy. Semen taken from oligo or aspermic men and that from men whose wives proved infertile did not contain significantly different amounts of prostaglandin from samples taken from fertile men. However, a smaller scatter of values for PGE content was found in the group where infertility was unexplained. This was significant ( P <0.025). It was also found that considerable deterioration of samples occurred on storage.