Sperm cryopreservation: Effects on chromatin structure

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 791, Issue , 2014, Pages 137-150

  Paoli, Donatella ^a   Lombardo, Francesco ^a   Lenzi, Andrea ^a   Gandini, Loredana ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Male fertility preservation; Semen cryopreservation; Sperm DNA damage

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; CASPASE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; LIPOPROTEIN; LIQUID NITROGEN; POVIDONE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; STARCH; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FREEZING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; THAWING;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DAMAGE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84934443083     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7783-9_9     Document Type: Article

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