Pharmacological stimulation of sperm motility in frozen and thawed testicular sperm using the dimethylxanthine theophylline

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1331-1336

  Ebner, Thomas ^a   Tews, Gernot ^a   Mayer, Richard B ^a   Ziehr, Stephanie ^b   Arzt, Wolfgang ^a   Costamoling, Walter ^c   Shebl, Omar ^a  

^a KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Wien Betriebsgesellschaft   (Austria)

Author keywords

Immotile sperm; sperm viability; stimulation of sperm motility; TESE; theophylline

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLXANTHINE THEOPHYLLINE; GM 501; THEOPHYLLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BLASTOCYST; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIDATION; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM RETRIEVAL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; THEOPHYLLINE; XANTHINES;

EID: 82455175319     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.08.041     Document Type: Article

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