Human spermatozoa: Revelations on the road to conception

F1000Prime Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Aitken, R John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYNONENAL; 8 HYDROXY 2 PROPYLAMINOTETRALIN; ACROLEIN; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MALONALDEHYDE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEUPLOIDY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL AGING; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROPHILICITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXCISION REPAIR; FERTILIZATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE FERTILITY; MUTATION RATE; OLIGOSPERMIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATERNAL AGE; PATERNAL SMOKING; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RNA ANALYSIS; SENESCENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; UTERINE TUBE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84885594030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20517599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12703/P5-39     Document Type: Article

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