Using the alkaline comet assay in prognostic tests for male infertility and assisted reproductive technology outcomes

Mutagenesis

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 163-170

  Lewis, Sheena E M ^a   Agbaje, Ishola M ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; DNA;

CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMET ASSAY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VASECTOMY; CHEMISTRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMET ASSAY; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44649154510     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gem052     Document Type: Review

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