ICSI outcome is not associated with the incidence of spermatozoa with abnormal chromatin condensation

In Vivo

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 921-926

  Karydis, Spyros ^a   Asimakopoulos, Byron ^a   Papadopoulos, Nikos ^a   Vakalopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Al Hasani, Safaa ^b   Nikolettos, Nikos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin condensation; Fertilization; Spermatozoa; Subfertility

Indexed keywords

CHROMOMYCIN A3;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; PREGNANCY RATE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23044467496     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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