Improvements in human sperm quality by long-term in vitro co-culture with isolated porcine Sertoli cells

Human Reproduction

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2598-2605

  Menegazzo, Massimo ^a   Zuccarello, Daniela ^a   Luca, Giovanni ^b   Ferlin, Alberto ^a   Calvitti, Mario ^b   Mancuso, Francesca ^b   Calafiore, Riccardo ^b   Foresta, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ART; culture; Sertoli cell; sperm

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ESTRADIOL; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL ISOLATION; CELL VIABILITY; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERM AND SERTOLI CELL COCULTURE; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWINE;

SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 80052889414     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/der248     Document Type: Article

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