ART success and in vivo sperm cell selection depend on the ultramorphological status of spermatozoa

Andrologia

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-8

  Berkovitz, A ^a   Eltes, F ^b   Soffer, Y ^c   Zabludovsky, N ^e   Beyth, Y ^a   Farhi, J ^d   Levran, D ^d   Bartoov, Benjamin ^b  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e NONE

Author keywords

ART; Male factor; Semen analysis; Sperm ultramorphology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; SPERMATOZOON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0032948064     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0272.1999.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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