Credibility of chromomycin A3 staining in prediction of fertility

International Journal of Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-10

  Nasr Esfahani, Mohammad Hossein ^a,b   Aboutorabi, Roshanak ^c   Razavi, Shahnaz ^c  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN FERTILITY AND INFERTILITY CENTER   (Iran)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chromomycin A3; Morphology; Motility; Protamine; Semen analysis

Indexed keywords

CHROMOMYCIN A3; PROTAMINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MODIFIED PAPANICOLAOU STAINING; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STAINING; SUBFERTILITY;

EID: 70449641024     PISSN: 2008076X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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