Perspectives on the assessment of human sperm chromatin integrity

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1508-1517

  Palermo, Gianpiero D ^a   Neri, Queenie V ^a   Cozzubbo, Tyler ^a   Rosenwaks, Zev ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

COMET; Follow up of children; ICSI; SCD; SCSA; Sperm DNA fragmentation; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

DNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; CHROMATIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMET ASSAY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION ASSAY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MALE INFERTILITY; NICK END LABELING; NIDATION; PARENTAL AGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERM CHROMATIN INTEGRITY; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ADULT; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; CHROMATIN; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84914696236     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.10.008     Document Type: Review

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