Techniques for cryopreservation of individual or small numbers of human spermatozoa: A systematic review

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 153-164

  Abdelhafez, Faten ^a   Bedaiwy, Mohamed ^b,c   El Nashar, Sherif A ^b   Sabanegh, Edmund ^a   Desai, Nina ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryoloop; Epidydimal sperm; Single sperm cryopreservation; Testicular sperm; Zona carrier

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBASE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THAWING;

COHORT STUDIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 60149089975     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmn061     Document Type: Review

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