Diagnosis of male infertility: A need of functional and chromatin evaluation;Diagnóstico de infertilidad masculina: Necesidad de valoraciones funcionales y cromatínicas

Actas Urologicas Espanolas

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 100-105

  Curti, G ^a   Canepa M ^a   Cantu L ^a   Montes, J M ^a  

^a Laboratorio Fertilab   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Nitroblue Tetrazolium; Sperm DNA fragmentation; Sperm function tests; Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHROMATIN; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874647070     PISSN: 02104806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acuro.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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