Preliminary study on the role of the human IZUMO gene in oocyte-spermatozoa fusion failure

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1246-1248

  Granados Gonzalez, Viviana ^a   Aknin Seifer, Isabelle ^a   Touraine, Renaud Lauriam ^a   Chouteau, Jacques ^b   Wolf, Jean Philippe ^c   Levy, Rachel ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^b Clinilab   (France)

^c HÔPITAL JEAN VERDIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN IZUMO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EXON; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON;

CELLS, CULTURED; EXONS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 52949154713     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.09.008     Document Type: Article

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