Cumulus cell apoptosis changes with exposure to spermatozoa and pathologies involved in infertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2009, Pages 2061-2068

  Díaz Fontdevila, Marina ^a   Pommer, Ricardo ^a,b   Smith, Rosita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b Reproductive Medicine Unit   (Chile)

Author keywords

apoptosis; Cumulus cells; spermatozoa; TUNEL assay

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; COMET ASSAY; CUMULUS CELL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NICK END LABELING; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; CUMULUS CELLS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 65049083255     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.05.073     Document Type: Article

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