Tracking sperm in three-dimensions

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 373, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-129

  Corkidi, G ^a   Taboada, B ^b   Wood, C D ^a   Guerrero, A ^a   Darszon, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Motility; Sperm tracking; Three dimensional analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROSCOPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS;

EID: 45849145402     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.05.189     Document Type: Article

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