Acridine orange binding to RNA interferes DNA fragmentation index calculation in sperm chromatin structure assay

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Venkatesh, Sundararajan ^a   Dada, Rima ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LETTER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RNA BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM;

ACRIDINE ORANGE; CHROMATIN; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 77952553219     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.03.039     Document Type: Letter

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