Expression of beta-tubulin epitope in human sperm with pathological spermiogram

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 1120-1128

  Peknicova, Jana ^a   Pexidrova, Marie ^a   Kubatova, Alena ^a   Koubek, Pavel ^a   Tepla, Olina ^b   Sulimenko, Tetyana ^a   Draber, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^b ISCARE IVF   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Beta tubulin; pathological spermiogram; sperm head

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; ASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMIOGRAM; TERATOZOOSPERMIA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EPITOPES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATOZOA; TUBULIN;

EID: 34848858492     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.12.070     Document Type: Article

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