Sperm chromatin damage impairs human fertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 43-50

  Spanò, Marcello ^a   Bonde, Jens P ^b   Hjøllund, Henrik I ^b   Kolstad, Henrik A ^b   Cordelli, Eugenia ^a   Leter, Giorgio ^a,b  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chromatin structure; Fertility; Flow cytometry; Human spermatozoa; Time to pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CHROMATIN; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

CHROMATIN; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0033973324     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00462-8     Document Type: Article

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