The fatty acid composition of phospholipids of spermatozoa from infertile patients

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-118

  Zalata, Adel A ^b   Christophe, Armand B ^a   Depuydt, Christophe E ^a   Schoonjans, Frank ^a   Comhaire, Frank H ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

DHA; Fatty acids; Male infertility; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; VARICOCELE;

EPIDIDYMITIS; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SPERM HEAD; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOZOA; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0031907079     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.2.111     Document Type: Article

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