Quantification of sperm specific mRNA transcripts (PRM1, PRM2, and TNP2) in teratozoospermia and normozoospermia: New correlations between mRNA content and morphology of sperm

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 26-35

  Savadi Shiraz, Elham ^a,b   Edalatkhah, Haleh ^a   Talebi, Saeed ^c   Heidari Vala, Hamed ^a   Zandemami, Mahdi ^a   Pahlavan, Somayeh ^a   Modarressi, Mohammad Hossein ^c   Akhondi, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Paradowska Dogan, Agnieszka ^b   Sadeghi, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOMYCIN A3; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTAMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PRM1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PRM2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TNP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; PRM1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTAMINE 2; SPERMATID TRANSITION PROTEINS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; GENE DOSAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; NORMOZOOSPERMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SOMATIC CELL; SPERM; SPERM MORPHOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PROTAMINES; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84930244756     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22440     Document Type: Article

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