Effect of sperm storage and selection techniques on sperm parameters

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-12

  Sharma, Rakesh ^a   Kattoor, Ajoe John ^a   Ghulmiyyah, Jana ^a   Agarwal, Ashok ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Slow freezing; Sperm; Sperm cryopreservation; Sperm selection techniques; Storage methods

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; LIQUID NITROGEN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ACROSOME; AZOOSPERMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTROPHORESIS; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FREEZE DRYING; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAGNETIC ASSISTED CELL SORTING; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MICROMANIPULATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; REVIEW; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR SPERM ASPIRATION; VAPOR; VITRIFICATION; VOLVOX; VOLVOX GLOBATOR; ZETA POTENTIAL; CELL SEPARATION; CENTRIFUGATION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPERMATOZOON;

CELL SEPARATION; CENTRIFUGATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZE DRYING; HUMANS; MALE; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84920062398     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2014.976720     Document Type: Review

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