Sperm preparation for ART

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Henkel, Ralf R ^a   Schill, Wolf Bernhard ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AMYLASE; ASCORBIC ACID; BICARBONATE; CAFFEINE; CHELATING AGENT; CHYMOTRYPSIN A; DEOXYADENOSINE; GLASS; GLUTATHIONE; HYALURONIDASE; KALLIKREIN; LYSOZYME; METAL; PENICILLAMINE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR; TRYPSIN; UNITHIOL;

CELL DAMAGE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DEVICE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELL SEPARATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 3242714540     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-1-108     Document Type: Review

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