Nitric oxide synthase and nitrite production in human spermatozoa: Evidence that endogenous nitric oxide is beneficial to sperm motility

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 873-878

  Lewis, S E M ^a   Donnelly, E T ^a   Sterling, E S L ^a   Kennedy, M S ^a   Thompson, W ^a   Chakravarthy, U ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

L NAME; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

ENZYME INHIBITOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE; SUPEROXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITES; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0030275612     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/2.11.873     Document Type: Article

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