The clinical utility of the protamine 1/protamine 2 ratio in sperm

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 772-777

  Nanassy, Laszlo ^a   Liu, Lihua ^a   Griffin, Jeanine ^a   Carrell, Douglas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; Epigenetics; Male infertility; Protamine; Sperm chromatin

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957991868     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986611795713934     Document Type: Article

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