Protamines and male infertility

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 417-435

  Oliva, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Genome; Mutation; Protamine; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTAMINE;

CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA REPAIR; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RNA TRANSLATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTAMINES; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSGENES;

EID: 33745255403     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dml009     Document Type: Review

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