The single sperm curling test, a modified hypo-osmotic swelling test, as a potential technique for the selection of viable sperm for intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 346-350

  Ahmadi, All ^a   Ng, Soon Chye ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Hamster oocyte; Human sperm; Hypo osmotic swelling (HOS) test; ICSI; Male pronucleus formation; Sperm head decondensation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; HAMSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TESTIS BIOPSY;

EID: 0030837738     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)81527-0     Document Type: Article

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