Sperm immobilized before intracytoplasmic sperm injection undergo ultrastructural damage and acrosomal disruption

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 702-704

  Gómez Torres, Maria José ^a   Ten, Jorge ^b   Girela, José L ^a   Romero, Jesús ^c   Bernabeu, Rafael ^b   De Juan, Joaquin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b Bernabeu Institute of Fertility and Gynecology   (Spain)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; human spermatozoa; ICSI; scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME REACTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MIDPIECE; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ACROSOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PREGNANCY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 34548386544     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.12.063     Document Type: Article

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