Spermatozoal nuclear determinants of reproductive outcome: Implications for ART

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 337-349

  Seli, Emre ^a   Sakkas, Denny ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetic regulation; Non specific DNA strand breaks; Reproductive outcome; Sperm chromosome abnormalities; Y chromosome microdeletions

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; NUCLEAR FACTOR; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANEUPLOIDY; APOPTOSIS; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; DNA METHYLATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; GENOME; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHENOTYPE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 21244445743     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmi011     Document Type: Review

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