Successful outcomes achieved in assisted reproduction cycles using sperm with high levels of high DNA stainability

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 293-299

  Speyer, Barbara E ^a   Pizzey, Arnold R ^a   Abramov, Benjamin ^b   Saab, Wael ^b   Doshi, Alpesh ^b   Sarna, Urvashi ^b   Harper, Joyce C ^a   Serhal, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High DNA stainability; in vitro fertilization (IVF); intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI); pregnancy loss

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE AND NUCLEIC ACID PARAMETERS; HIGH DNA STAINABILITY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIDATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOZOON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84941599102     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2015.1033065     Document Type: Article

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