Raman spectroscopy of DNA packaging in individual human sperm cells distinguishes normal from abnormal cells

Journal of Biophotonics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 322-332

  Huser, Thomas ^a,b   Orme, Christine A ^c   Hollars, Christopher W ^a   Corzett, Michele H ^c   Balhorn, Rod ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell shape abnormalities; DNA packaging; Human sperm cells; Raman spectroscopy; Sperm chromatin

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES; CELL SHAPE ABNORMALITIES; CELL SHAPES; DNA PACKAGING; HEALTHY HUMANS; HUMAN SPERM; HUMAN SPERM CELLS; IN-VITRO; MALE INFERTILITY; MICRO RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN CONTENTS; RAMAN SPECTRA; SINGLE CELLS; SPERM CELLS; SPERM CHROMATIN;

CELL MEMBRANES; DNA; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PACKAGING; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CYTOLOGY;

DNA; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPERMATOZOON; TIME;

CHROMATIN; DNA; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67249114256     PISSN: 1864063X     EISSN: 18640648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbio.200910012     Document Type: Article

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