A comparative study of spermatozoal chromatin using acridine orange staining and flow cytometry

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-137

  Lewin, L M ^a   Golan, R ^a   Freidlin, P ^b   Shochat, L ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acridine orange; Chromatin; Clarias gariepinus; Flow cytometry; Hamster; Human; Macaca fascicularis; Rat; Spermatozoa; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; DNA STRUCTURE; FISH; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENOME; HAMSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON; STAINING; TURKEY (BIRD);

CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MELEAGRIS GALLAPOVA; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0032731986     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00098-7     Document Type: Article

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