Is fine morphology of the human sperm nuclei affected by in vitro incubation at 37°C?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1589-1594

  Peer, Sigal ^a   Eltes, Fina ^a   Berkovitz, Arie ^c   Yehuda, Ronen ^a   Itsykson, Pavel ^b   Bartoov, Benjamin ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Israel Fertility Medical Centre   (Israel)

^c MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Sperm incubation at 37 C; vacuolated spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SHAPE; HUMANS; INCUBATORS; MALE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VACUOLES;

EID: 36849041572     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.01.069     Document Type: Article

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