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Interference with Spermatozoa Capacitation

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Regulation of Male Fertility

Part of the book series: Clinics in Andrology ((CLAN,volume 5))

Abstract

Even though some developed nations are concerned about negative population growth values, more adequate contraceptive techniques to control the world-wide population explosion persists as one of our more important needs. The urgency of the search for new contraceptives has, if anything, increased in the last decade in view of:

  1. 1)

    The growing concern about possible adverse effects of the long-term use of the pill.

  2. 2)

    The high number of women abandoning the use of intrauterine devices.

  3. 3)

    The low number of women using long-term progestagens or the morning after pill.

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  1. Baylor College of Medicine, Veterans Administration Center, 2002 Holcome Blvd., Houston, TX, 77211, USA

    G. R. Cunningham

  2. Andrology Unit of the Department of Dermatology, University of Munich, D-8000, Munich 2, Frauenlobstr. 9-11, West Germany

    W.-B. Schill

  3. Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Medical Research Building, 550 E. Canfield Ave., Detroit, MI, 48201, USA

    E. S. E. Hafez

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Reyes, A., Chavarria, M.E., Rosado, A. (1980). Interference with Spermatozoa Capacitation. In: Cunningham, G.R., Schill, WB., Hafez, E.S.E. (eds) Regulation of Male Fertility. Clinics in Andrology, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8875-0_14

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