Percentage of normal sperm heads is significantly increased by Percoll separation of semen

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 116-119

  Gravance, C G ^a,b   Champion, Z J ^a   Sax Gravance, S K ^a   Casey, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Percoll separation; Sperm morphology; Sperm morphometry

Indexed keywords

PERCOLL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON;

CELL SEPARATION; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; POVIDONE; SEMEN; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPERM HEAD;

EID: 0031747619     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2605.1998.00087.x     Document Type: Article

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