Longitudinal study of sperm DNA fragmentation as measured by terminal uridine nick end-labelling assay

Human Reproduction

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1921-1927

  Sergerie, M ^a,b   Laforest, G ^a,b   Boulanger, K ^a,b   Bissonnette, F ^a,b   Bleau, Gilles ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA fragmentation; Longitudinal study; Male infertility; Sperm; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; URIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MALE INFERTILITY; NICK END LABELING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM DONOR; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 21644458568     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh885     Document Type: Article

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