Selection of nonapoptotic spermatozoa as a new tool for enhancing assisted reproduction outcomes: An in vitro model

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 530-537

  Said, Tamer ^a,b   Agarwal, Ashok ^a,b,c   Grunewald, Sonja ^d   Rasch, Manja ^d   Baumann, Thomas ^d   Kriegel, Christian ^d   Li, Liang ^b   Glander, Hans Juergen ^d   Thomas Jr , Anthony J ^a,b,c   Paasch, Uwe ^d  

^a Center for Advanced Research in Human Reproduction Infertility and Sexual Function   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; In vitro fertilization; Sperm

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CASPASE 3; CASPASE INHIBITOR; DNA FRAGMENT; FLUORESCENT DYE; LIPOCORTIN 5; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HAMSTER; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIPOPHILICITY; MAGNETIC CELL SORTING; MALE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MODEL; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; ANNEXIN A5; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CRICETINAE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; OOCYTES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 33144478953     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.046607     Document Type: Article

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