Pentoxifylline initiates motility in spontaneously immotile epididymal and testicular spermatozoa and allows normal fertilization, pregnancy, and birth after intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 194-199

  Terriou, P ^a   Hans, E ^a   Giorgetti, C ^a   Spach, J L ^a   Salzmann, J ^a   Urrutia, V ^a   Roulier, R ^a  

^a Institut de Medecine de la Reproduction   (France)

Author keywords

Epididymal spermatozoa; Immotile spermatozoa; Pentoxifylline; Testicular spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

PENTOXIFYLLINE;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; AXONEME; CELL VIABILITY; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPLANTATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADULT; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0033861862     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009435732258     Document Type: Article

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