The expression and distribution of deoxyribonucleic acid repair and apoptosis markers in testicular germ cells of infertile varicocele patients resembles that of old fertile men

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 795-801

  El Domyati, Moetaz M ^a   Al Din, Abo Bakr M ^b   Barakat, Manal T ^a   El Fakahany, Hasan M ^a,c   Honig, Stanton ^d   Xu, Jiasen ^c   Sakkas, Denny ^c  

^a Al Minya Faculty of Medicine ^*  (Egypt)

^b Al Minya Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Urology Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; apoptosis; caspase; DNA repair; germ cells; PARP 1; varicocele

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; DNA (APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE 1; POLY(ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSE); XRCC1 PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GERM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGONIUM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING, PREMATURE; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CELL DIVISION; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASES; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; VARICOCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75949104053     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.10.031     Document Type: Article

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