'How to count sperm properly': checklist for acceptability of studies based on human semen analysis.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Human Reproduction

• Publication date

  2015-12-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1093/humrep/dev305PMID 26682580
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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