Abnormal early cleavage events predict early embryo demise: Sperm oxidative stress and early abnormal cleavage

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Burruel, Victoria ^a   Klooster, Katie ^a   Barker, Christopher M ^a   Pera, Renee Reijo ^b   Meyers, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; CYTOKINESIS; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPERM; ANEUPLOIDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; OOCYTE; PATHOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANEUPLOIDY; BLASTOCYST; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MITOSIS; OOCYTES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84946949744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06598     Document Type: Article

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