Efficiency of Sil-Select and Percoll to recover spermatozoa with normal chromatin and morphology and the effect of these parameters on fertilization, embryo quality and cleavage score

Middle East Fertility Society Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 36-42

  Nasr Esfahani, Mohammad H ^a,b,c   Razavi, Shahnaz ^c   Mardani, Mohammad ^c   Tofigh Hesabi, Safora ^c  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN FERTILITY AND INFERTILITY CENTER   (Iran)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aniline blue; Chromatin; CMA3; Morphology; Percoll; Sil Select; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ANILINE DERIVATIVE; HISTONE; PROTAMINE;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

EID: 0038032873     PISSN: 11105690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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