Panel of five microRNAs as potential biomarkers for the diagnosis and assessment of male infertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 989-997.e1

  Abu Halima, Masood ^a   Hammadeh, Mohamad ^a   Backes, Christina ^a   Fischer, Ulrike ^a   Leidinger, Petra ^a   Lubbad, Abdel Monem ^b   Keller, Andreas ^a   Meese, Eckart ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF GAZA   (Palestine)

Author keywords

male infertility; microRNA; nonobstructive azoospermia; seminal plasma; spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 122; MICRORNA 34B; MICRORNA 34C 5P; MICRORNA 429; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GENETIC MARKER;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBFERTILITY; TESTIS BIOPSY; VALIDATION STUDY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICRORNAS; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84908228709     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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