Measuring intracellular Ca2+ changes in human sperm using four techniques: Conventional fluorometry, stopped flow fluorometry, flow cytometry and single cell imaging

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 75, 2013, Pages

  Mata Martínez, Esperanza ^a   José, Omar ^a   Torres Rodríguez, Paulina ^a   Solís López, Alejandra ^a   Sánchez Tusie, Ana A ^a   Sánchez Guevara, Yoloxochitl ^a   Treviño, Marcela B ^b   Treviño, Claudia L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Edison State College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANILINE DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM; FLUO 3; FLUORESCENT DYE; XANTHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUOROMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT DYES; FLUOROMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOA; XANTHENES;

EID: 84878325019     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50344(2013)     Document Type: Article

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