Clinical implications of sperm DNA damage

Human Fertility

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 201-207

  Lewis, Sheena E M ^a   Simon, Luke ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Sperm DNA

Indexed keywords

BASE; DNA FORMAMIDOPYRIMIDINE GLYCOSYLASE; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

BIRTH RATE; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMET ASSAY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FUNCTION TEST; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; NICK END LABELING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANT WOMAN; REVIEW; RISK; RNA TRANSLATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPERM;

COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 78649974540     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14647273.2010.528823     Document Type: Review

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