Lipid analysis of human spermatozoa and seminal plasma by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy - Effects of freezing and thawing

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-156

  Schiller, Jürgen ^a   Arnhold, Jürgen ^a   Glander, Hans Jürgen ^b   Arnold, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Clinics of Dermatology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Lipids; MALDI TOF mass spectrometry; NMR spectroscopy; Seminal plasma; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PALMITIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; STEARIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZING; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE INFERTILITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; THAWING;

FREEZING; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0033868942     PISSN: 00093084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-3084(00)00148-1     Document Type: Article

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