Semen Levels of Spermatid-Specific Thioredoxin-3 Correlate with Pregnancy Rates in ART Couples

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Buckman, Clayton ^a,b   Ozanon, Christophe ^c   Qiu, Jing ^a   Sutovsky, Miriam ^a,b   Carafa, Joyce Ann ^a   Rawe, Vanesa Y ^d   Manandhar, Gaurishankar ^a   Miranda Vizuete, Antonio ^e   Sutovsky, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c Clinique Monplaisir   (France)

^d REPROTEC   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPERMATID SPECIFIC THIOREDOXIN 3; THIOREDOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY RATE; PURIFICATION; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGOTE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATIDS; THIOREDOXINS;

EID: 84878460037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061000     Document Type: Article

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