Clinical significance of sperm DNA damage threshold value in the assessment of male infertility

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1005-1013

  Venkatesh, Sundararajan ^a   Singh, Amar ^a   Shamsi, Monis Bilal ^a   Thilagavathi, Jayapalraja ^a   Kumar, Rajeev ^a   K Mitra, Dipendra ^a   Dada, Rima ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

male infertility; sperm chromatin structure assay; sperm DNA damage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIQUEFACTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; OLIGOSPERMIA; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

CHROMATIN; DNA DAMAGE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 80053547939     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719111401662     Document Type: Article

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