Decreased protamine-1 transcript levels in testes from infertile men

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 9, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 331-336

  Steger, Klaus ^a   Fink, Ludger ^a   Failing, Klaus ^a   Bohle, Rainer M ^a   Kliesch, Sabine ^b   Weidner, Wolfgang ^a   Bergmann, Martin ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infertile men; Protamines; Real time quantitative PCR; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PARAFFIN; PROTAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTAMINES; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0038648821     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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