Effect of leukaemia inhibitory factor on long-term sperm motility and survival

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-74

  Attar, Erkut ^a   Ozsait, Bilge ^a   Bulgurcuoglu, Sibel ^a   Serdaroglu, Hasan ^a   Arici, Aydin ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

LIF; Motility; Spermatozoa; Survival

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR;

AIR; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL SWELLING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; OSMOSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; UTERINE TUBE;

EID: 0037810749     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61731-2     Document Type: Article

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