Spermatozoa as biomarkers for the assessment of human male infertility and genotoxicity

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-50

  Anton, Ester ^a,b   Krawetz, Stephen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Genotoxicity; Human spermatozoa; Infertility

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PHTHALIC ACID;

AIR POLLUTANT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL VIABILITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DAMAGE; EPIGENETICS; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANEUPLOIDY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL SHAPE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MUTAGENS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84855791140     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2011.637152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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