Dynamic aspects concerned with the mechanism of separating motile sperm from nonmotile sperm, leukocytes, and debris with the use of high-density Percoll gradients

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 961-966

  Makler, Amnon ^a   Stoller, Judith ^a   Makler Shiran, Eynath ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Centrifugation; High density media; Human sperm; Percoll; Sperm separation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL SEPARATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

CELL SEPARATION; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; COLLOIDS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; POVIDONE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 0032212953     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00286-6     Document Type: Article

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