Concurrent use of flow cytometry and fluorescence in-situ hybridization techniques for detecting faulty meiosis in a human sperm sample

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-66

  Weissenberg, R ^a   Aviram, A ^a   Golan, R ^b   Lewin, L M ^b   Levron, J ^a   Madgar, I ^a   Dor, J ^a   Barkai, G ^a   Goldman, B ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Human spermatozoa; Non disjunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONDISJUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOZOON; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; OLIGOSPERMIA; SPERMATOZOA; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031934684     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.1.61     Document Type: Article

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