Morphological defects of sperm flagellum implicated in human male infertility;Malformations de l'appareil flagellaire du spermatozoïde impliquées dans l'infertilité chez l'homme

Medecine/Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 503-511

  Escalier, Denise ^a,b   Touré, Aminata ^c  

^a Assistance publique Hôpitaux de Paris   (France)

^b ARMAND TROUSSEAU HOSPITAL   (France)

^c INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXONEME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MITOCHONDRION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AXONEME; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84861869981     PISSN: 07670974     EISSN: 19585381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2012285015     Document Type: Review

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