The clinical significance of sperm DNA damage detection combined with routine semen testing in assisted reproduction

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 617-624

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Wang, Lirong ^a   Zhou, Zuomin ^a   Sha, Jiahao ^a   Mao, Yundong ^a   Cai, Lingbo ^a   Feng, Ting ^a   Yan, Zhengjie ^a   Ma, Long ^a   Liu, Jiayin ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acridine orange technique; Assisted reproductive technology; Prediction; Semen analysis; Sperm DNA damage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PROGNOSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

EID: 69449083079     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr_00000002     Document Type: Article

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