Use of diagnostic testing to detect infertility

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 68-76

  Hwang, Kathleen ^a   Lipshultz, Larry I ^a   Lamb, Dolores J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetics; Male infertility; Semen analysis; Sperm function testing

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DAMAGE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPE 47,XXY; KARYOTYPING; LEUKOCYTE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROSCOPY; NITROBLUE TETRAZOLIUM TEST; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

EID: 79551538609     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-010-0154-0     Document Type: Article

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