Morphometric assessment of mature and diminished-maturity human spermatozoa: Sperm regions that reflect differences in maturity

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2007-2014

  Gergely, Anna ^a,b   Kovanci, Ertug ^a   Senturk, Levent ^a   Cosmi, Eric ^a   Vigue, Lynne ^a   Huszar, Gabor ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Albert Szent Gyorgyi Medical School   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Biochemical markers; Creatine kinase M; Fertility; Spermiogenesis; Tail length

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

EID: 0032780475     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.8.2007     Document Type: Article

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