Andrology: Mitochondrial disease and reduced sperm motility

Human Reproduction

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 1863-1868

  Folgero T ^a   Bertheussen, K ^a   Lindal, S ^a   Torbergsen, T ^a   oian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Energy substrate; Male infertility; Mitochondrial disease; Sperm motility; Sperm ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; GLUCOSE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; PYRUVIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); SUCCINIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CASE REPORT; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; GLUCOSE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHIES; PYRUVATES; PYRUVIC ACID; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SUCCINATES; SUCCINIC ACID;

EID: 0027379377     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a137950     Document Type: Article

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