Nitric oxide synthase and tyrosine nitration in idiopathic asthenozoospermia: An immunohistochemical study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 554-560

  Salvolini, Eleonora ^a   Buldreghini, Eddi ^a   Lucarini, Guendalina ^a   Vignini, Arianna ^a   Di Primio, Roberto ^a   Balercia, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asthenozoospermia; immunohistochemistry; nitric oxide synthase; nitrotyrosine; sperm cells

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; CITRULLINE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TYROSINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NITRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL SHAPE; CITRULLINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TYROSINE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84857783058     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.12.022     Document Type: Article

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