Comparison between human sperm preservation medium and test-yolk buffer on protecting chromatin and morphology integrity of human spermatozoa in fertile and subfertile men after freeze-thawing procedure

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1012-1018

  Hammadeh, M E ^a   Greiner, S ^a   Rosenbaum, P ^a   Schmidt, W ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acridine orange; Chromatin normality; Cryopreservation; Donor semen; Infertility patients' semen; Morphology of spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GLYCEROL; KANAMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA CONTENT; EGG YOLK; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; THAWING;

EID: 0034751473     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2001.tb03442.x     Document Type: Article

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