Sperm survival: Relationship to age-related sperm DNA integrity in infertile men

Archives of Andrology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-32

  Moskovtsev, S I ^a   Willis, J ^a   White, J ^a   Mullen, J B M ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Male age; Sperm DNA integrity; Sperm survival

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SURVIVAL;

AGING; APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 80052764313     PISSN: 01485016     EISSN: 15210375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01485010600908330     Document Type: Article

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