Mitochondria functionality and sperm quality

Reproduction

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Amaral, Alexandra ^a,b,c   Lourenço, Bárbara ^a   Marques, Mónica ^a,d   Ramalho Santos, João ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PROTEOME; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

APOPTOSIS; BIOENERGY; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ORGANELLE; FERTILIZATION; GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MOUSE STRAIN; GERM CELL; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84885668589     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-13-0178     Document Type: Review

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