Live birth after intrauterine insemination with spermatozoa from an oligoasthenozoospermic patient vitrified without permeable cryoprotectants

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 559-562

  Sanchez, Raul ^a   Isachenko, Vladimir ^b   Petrunkina, Anna M ^c,d   Risopatron, Jennie ^a   Schulz, Mabel ^a   Isachenko, Evgenia ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN; LETROZOLE; LIQUID NITROGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL SUSPENSION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LEUKOCYTE; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NEWBORN; OLIGOASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VITRIFICATION;

ADULT; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HOMOLOGOUS; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; PREGNANCY; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84856815745     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: 19394640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.111.014274     Document Type: Article

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