Protamine ratio and the level of histone retention in sperm selected from a density gradient preparation

Andrologia

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 88-94

  Hammoud, S ^a   Liu, L ^a   Carrell, D T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Density gradient; Histone; Motility; Protamine

Indexed keywords

ANILINE; HISTONE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTAMINE;

ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL POPULATION; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STAINING;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; CELL SEPARATION; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PROTAMINES; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOA; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 61449084564     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2008.00890.x     Document Type: Article

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