Detection of fractalkine in human seminal plasma and its role in infertile patients

Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1560-1564

  Zhang, Qing ^a   Shimoya, Koichiro ^a   Ohta, Yukinibu ^a   Chin, Rika ^a   Tenma, Kumiko ^a   Isaka, Shigeyuki ^a   Nakamura, Hitomi ^a   Koyama, Masayasu ^a   Azuma, Chihiro ^a   Murata, Yuji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asthenozoospermia; Fractalkine; Seminal plasma

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; CX3C CHEMOKINE; FRACTALKINE; INTERLEUKIN 8; CHEMOKINE (C X3 C MOTIF) LIGAND 1; CHEMOKINE (C-X3-C MOTIF) LIGAND 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL MIGRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EJACULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MONOCYTE; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERM DONOR; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; T LYMPHOCYTE; WESTERN BLOTTING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEMOKINES, CX3C; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTERLEUKIN-8; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMEN; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 0035989367     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/17.6.1560     Document Type: Article

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