OutlookCell phones and male infertility: dissecting the relationship
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Dr Ashok Agarwal is a Professor in the Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and the Director of Reproductive Research Center, and the Clinical Andrology Laboratory at The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He has published over 300 scientific articles, reviews and book chapters in different areas of andrology and reproductive biology. His long-term research interests include studies on the role of oxidative stress, DNA integrity, and apoptosis in the
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Dr Ashok Agarwal is a Professor in the Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and the Director of Reproductive Research Center, and the Clinical Andrology Laboratory at The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He has published over 300 scientific articles, reviews and book chapters in different areas of andrology and reproductive biology. His long-term research interests include studies on the role of oxidative stress, DNA integrity, and apoptosis in the pathophysiology of male and female reproduction.
Presented in part as a poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, New Orleans, USA, October 2006.