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Research Article

EFFECT OF TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS (TGFα AND TGFβ) ON HUMAN SPERM CHEMOTACTIC MIGRATION IN VITRO

L. ŚLIWA Jagiellonian University, Collelgium Medicum, Department of Human Developmental Biology, Kraków, Poland
Pages 155-159 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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