Modern andrology: From semen analysis to postgenomic studies of the male gametes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1127, Issue , 2008, Pages 59-63

  Patrizio, Pasquale ^a   Sanguineti, Fabio ^a   Sakkas, Denny ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Andrology; Male infertility; Semen analysis; Sperm DNA

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN;

ANDROLOGY; COMET ASSAY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA INTEGRATION; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMETE; GENOMICS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MORPHOLOGY; NICK END LABELING; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM CHROMATIN STRUCTURE ASSAY; SPERMATOZOON;

EID: 42449157163     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1434.021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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