Sperm content of postacrosomal WW binding protein is related to fertilization outcomes in patients undergoing assisted reproductive technology

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 440-447

  Aarabi, Mahmoud ^a   Balakier, Hanna ^b   Bashar, Siamak ^b   Moskovtsev, Sergey I ^b,c   Sutovsky, Peter ^d,e   Librach, Clifford L ^b,c   Oko, Richard ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CReATe Fertility Centre   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted reproductive technology (ART); Fertilization; intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI); male infertility; perinuclear theca; postacrosomal WW binding protein (PAWP); sperm; spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; POSTACROSOMAL WW BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY (ART); FERTILIZATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION (ICSI); MALE INFERTILITY; PERINUCLEAR THECA; POSTACROSOMAL WW BINDING PROTEIN (PAWP); SPERM; SPERMIOGENESIS;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; CARRIER PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84905462704     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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