Sperm nuclear DNA fragmentation and its association with semen quality in Greek men

Andrologia

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1166-1174

  Evgeni, Evangelini ^a,b   Lymberopoulos, G ^a   Touloupidis, S ^c   Asimakopoulos, B ^b  

^a Seminology Laboratory G Lymberopoulos   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conventional semen parameters; Correlation; DNA fragmentation; Infertility

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84946491656     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/and.12398     Document Type: Article

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