Clinical adaptation of the sperm ubuquitin tag immunoassay (SUTI): Relationship of sperm ubiquitylation with sperm quality in gradient-purified semen samples from 93 men from a general infertility clinic population

Human Reproduction

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2271-2278

  Ozanon, Christophe ^a   Chouteau, Jacques ^b   Sutovsky, Peter ^c  

^a Clinique de Monplaisir   (France)

^b Assistance Medical Center Grenoble Belledonne   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Andrology; Infertility; Male factor; Sperm; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UBIQUITIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY GRADIENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSCOPY; PURIFICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; SAMPLING; SCREENING TEST; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SPERMATOZOON; UBIQUITINATION; CYTOLOGY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPERM;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL SEPARATION; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; SEMEN; SPERMATOZOA; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 25144493349     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dei013     Document Type: Article

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