Double Stranded Sperm DNA Breaks, Measured by Comet Assay, Are Associated with Unexplained Recurrent Miscarriage in Couples without a Female Factor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Ribas Maynou, Jordi ^a   García Peiró, Agustín ^a   Fernandez Encinas, Alba ^a   Amengual, Maria José ^b   Prada, Elena ^c   Cortés, Pilar ^a   Navarro, Joaquima ^a   Benet, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Servicio de Oncología Médica   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL MÚTUA DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; COMET ASSAY; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84866517445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044679     Document Type: Article

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