New insights into the expression profile and function of micro-ribonucleic acid in human spermatozoa

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Salas Huetos, Albert ^a   Blanco, Joan ^a   Vidal, Francesca ^a   Mercader, Josep M ^b   Garrido, Nicolás ^c   Anton, Ester ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INFERTILIDAD   (Spain)

Author keywords

embryogenesis; Infertility; microRNA; sperm biomarkers; spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD45 ANTIGEN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 374B 5P; MICRORNA 375; MICRORNA 532 5P; MICRORNA 564; PROTAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STABLE EXPRESSION;

EMBRYOGENESIS; INFERTILITY; MICRORNA; SPERM BIOMARKERS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICRORNAS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84903393919     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.03.040     Document Type: Article

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