Assessment of sperm using mRNA microarray technology

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1008-1022

  Garrido, Nicolás ^a   García Herrero, Sandra ^b   Meseguer, Marcos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Iviomics SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

molecular biomarkers; mRNA microarrays; sperm selection tools; Spermatozoa; transcriptome

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

CONCEPTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84876365108     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.02.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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