Correlation between response to progesterone and other functional parameters in human spermatozoa

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-111

  Giojalas, Laura C ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Calcium; Capacitation; Human spermatozoa; Motility; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; PROGESTERONE;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL VIABILITY; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMIOGRAM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CALCIUM; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROGESTERONE; REFERENCE VALUES; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

EID: 0031905246     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)00441-X     Document Type: Article

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