Sex Chromosome Alignment at Meiosis of Azoospermic Men with Azoospermia Factor Microdeletion

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 110-116

  Yogev, Leah ^a   Segal, Shmuel ^c   Zeharia, Einav ^a   Gamzu, Ronni ^a   Maymon, Batia B ^b   Paz, Gedalia ^a   Botchan, Amnon ^a   Hauser, Ron ^a   Yavetz, Haim ^a   Kleiman, Sandra E ^a  

^a LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BARZILAI MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Chromosome pairing; FISH; Y chromosome microdeletion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MEIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TELOMERE; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS BIOPSY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0347624016     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2004.tb02765.x     Document Type: Article

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