Seminal leukocytes are Good Samaritans for spermatozoa

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1315-1319

  Barraud Lange, Virginie ^a,b   Pont, Jean Christophe ^a   Ziyyat, Ahmed ^b   Pocate, Khaled ^a   Sifer, Christophe ^c   Cedrin Durnerin, Isabelle ^d   Fechtali, Bouchra ^c   Ducot, Beatrice ^e   Wolf, Jean Philippe ^a,b  

^a Université Paris Descartes ^*  (France)

^b INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

^c CHI Poissy Saint Germain en Laye   (France)

^d HÔPITAL JEAN VERDIER   (France)

^e CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

Author keywords

ART; chronicle inflammatory syndrome; IVF; Leukocytospermia; oxidative syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTOSPERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ABNORMALITY;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 82455212994     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.09.035     Document Type: Article

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