Human sperm head morphometric distribution and its influence on human fertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 883-891

  Aziz, Nabil ^a,b   Fear, Simon ^a   Taylor, Clare ^a   Kingsland, Charles R ^a   Lewis Jones, D Iwan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human; In vitro fertilization; Live morphometry; Sperm; Sperm deformity index

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE FERTILITY; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SPERM HEAD; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032211853     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00317-3     Document Type: Article

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