On-stage selection of single round spermatids using a vital, mitochondrion-specific fluorescent probe MitoTracker(TM) and high resolution differential interference contrast microscopy

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2301-2312

  Sutovsky, Peter ^b   Ramalho Santos, João ^b   Moreno, Ricardo D ^b   Oko, Richard ^c   Hewitson, Laura ^b   Schatten, Gerald ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Mitochondria; ROSI; Round spermatid; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; MITOTRACKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SELECTION; CELL SHAPE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VITAL STAIN;

EID: 0032850898     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.9.2301     Document Type: Article

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