Motile human normozoospermic and oligozoospermic semen samples show a difference in double-strand DNA break incidence

Human Reproduction

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2368-2376

  Derijck, Alwin A H A ^a,b   van der Heijden, Godfried W ^a,c   Ramos, Liliana ^a   Giele, Maud ^a   Kremer, Jan A M ^a   de Boer, Peter ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNA degradation; Double strand DNA break; ICSI; Sperm

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; EJACULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 34548085071     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dem166     Document Type: Article

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