DNA and total protamine masses in individual sperm from fertile mammalian subjects

Cytometry

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 263-271

  Bench, G S ^a   Friz, A M ^a   Corzett, M H ^a   Morse, D H ^b   Balhorn, R ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding site; DNA; Electrophoresis; Histones; Microdensitometry; Particle Induced X ray Emission (PIXE); Protamine 1; Protamine 2; Sperm

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; PROTAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DNA CONTENT; ELECTROPHORESIS; FERTILITY; HAMSTER; HORSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MICRODENSITOMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; X RAY SPECTROMETRY; MAMMAL;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CRICETINAE; DNA; HORSES; HUMANS; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; PROTAMINES; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029870112     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19960401)23:4<263::AID-CYTO1>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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