Morphology and the sperm penetration assay

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-41

  Zahalsky, Michael P ^a   Zoltan, Edward ^a   Medley, Nadine ^a   Nagler, Harris M ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Kruger morphology; SCI; SPA; Sperm penetration assay

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EGG; FERTILIZATION; HAMSTER; HUMAN; KRUGER MORPHOLOGY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE INFERTILITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0037227164     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04412-6     Document Type: Article

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