In vivo and in vitro decondensation of human sperm and assisted reproduction technologies

In Vivo

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 623-630

  Caglar, Ganze Sinem ^a   Hammadeh, Mohammed ^b   Asimakopoulos, Byron ^c   Nikolettos, Nikos ^c   Diedrich, Klaus ^a   Al Hassani, Safaa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA PACKAGING; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRONUCLEUS; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY;

EID: 17644410349     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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