Is flow cytometry really adapted to the determination of sperm concentration?

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 394-401

  Lu, J C ^a,b,f   Chen, F ^a,c   Xu, H R ^a,d   Wu, Y M ^a,d   Xia, X Y ^a   Huang, Y F ^a,f   Lu, N Q ^e  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanjing Hospital   (China)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Jiangsu Family Planning Institute   (China)

^f NANJING GENERAL HOSPITAL OF NANJING MILITARY COMMAND   (China)

Author keywords

Cell VU chamber; Computer assisted semen analysis; Flow cytometry; Quality control; Sperm concentration

Indexed keywords

LATEX;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY;

ADULT; AUTOANALYSIS; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSPHERES; OLIGOSPERMIA; PROPIDIUM; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMEN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 34250222428     PISSN: 00365513     EISSN: 15027686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365510601124032     Document Type: Article

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