Evidence of increased chromosomal instability in infertile males after exposure to mitomycin C and caffeine

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 199-204

  Papachristou, Fotini ^a   Lialiaris, Theodore ^a   Touloupidis, Stavros ^a   Kalaitzis, Christos ^a   Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a   Sofikitis, Nikolaos ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Chromosomal instability; Male infertility; Mitomycin C; Sister chromatid exchanges

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTOXICITY; GREECE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; MITOSIS INDEX; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; CAFFEINE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; MITOTIC INDEX; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

EID: 33644796885     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2006.00084.x     Document Type: Article

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