Double-stranded DNA breaks hidden in the neutralcometassay suggest a role of the sperm nuclearmatrix in DNA integrity maintenance

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 330-340

  Ribas Maynou, J ^a   Gawecka, J E ^b   Benet, J ^a   Ward, W S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Neutral comet assay; Sperm DNA breaks; Sperm nuclear matrix

Indexed keywords

DITHIOTHREITOL; DNA; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; VAS DEFERENS;

NEUTRAL COMET ASSAY; SPERM DNA BREAKS; SPERM NUCLEAR MATRIX;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHLORIDES; CHROMATIN; COMET ASSAY; DITHIOTHREITOL; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EDETIC ACID; EPIDIDYMIS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MALE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MICE; NUCLEAR MATRIX; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SPERMATOZOA; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 84896443644     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gat090     Document Type: Article

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