Proteomic analysis of seminal plasma from normal volunteers and post-vasectomy patients identifies over 2000 proteins and candidate biomarkers of the urogenital system

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 941-953

  Batruch, Ihor ^a   Lecker, Irene ^a   Kagedan, Daniel ^a   Smith, Christopher R ^a   Mullen, Brendan J ^a   Grober, Ethan ^a   Lo, Kirk C ^a   Diamandis, Eleftherios P ^a,b,c   Jarvi, Keith A ^a,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

epididymis; infertility; proteomics; seminal plasma; testis; vasectomy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EPIDIDYMIS; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; TESTIS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; VAS DEFERENS; VASECTOMY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEINS; SEMEN; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; VASECTOMY;

EID: 79952399131     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: 15353907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr100745u     Document Type: Article

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