Long-term effects of mouse intracytoplasmic sperm injection with DNA-fragmented sperm on health and behavior of adult offspring

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 761-772

  Fernández Gonzalez, Raúl ^a   Moreira, Pedro Nuno ^a   Pérez Crespo, Miriam ^a   Sánchez Martín, Manuel ^b   Ramirez, Miguel Angel ^a   Pericuesta, Eva ^a   Bilbao, Ainhoa ^c   Bermejo Alvarez, Pablo ^a   Hourcade, Juan De Dios ^a   De Fonseca, Fernando Rodriguez ^c   Gutiérrez Adán, Alfonso ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Behavior; DNA fragmented; Early development; Embryo; Embryo development; ICSI; Organ weight; Sperm DNA fragmentation

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; ANTIBODY; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HABITUATION; HEREDITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MESENCHYMOMA; MOUSE STRAIN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PRONUCLEUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; RETROPOSON; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPERMATOZOON; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELOMERE; THAWING; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGING, PREMATURE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 41549124198     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.065623     Document Type: Article

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