Comparing the roles of sperm chromatin integrity and apoptosis in intrauterine insemination outcomes of couples with mild male and female factor infertility

Journal of Reproduction and Infertility

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-40

  Khalili, Mohammad Ali ^a   Nazari, Saeedeh ^a   Dehghani Firouzabadi, Razieh ^a   Talebi, Alireza ^a   Baghazadeh Naeini, Shekofeh ^b   Sadeghian Nodoshan, Fatemeh ^a   Agha Rahimi, Azam ^a  

^a SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Infertility; Intrauterine transfusion; Male; Morphology; Sperm motility; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHROMOMYCIN A3; CLOMIFENE; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; GONADOTROPIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

EID: 84895888115     PISSN: 22285482     EISSN: 2251676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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