Sperm processing for advanced reproductive technologies: Where are we today?

Biotechnology Advances

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 578-587

  Rappa, Kari L ^a,b   Rodriguez, Harold F ^c   Hakkarainen, Gloria C ^d,e   Anchan, Raymond M ^f   Mutter, George L ^f   Asghar, Waseem ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Micro and Nanotechnology in Medicine   (United States)

^c Adv Technol Solutions   (United States)

^d Good Samaritan Medical Center West Palm Beach   (United States)

^e Palm Beach Obstetrics and Gynecology   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced reproductive technologies; Chemotaxis; ICSI; In vitro fertilization; Sperm sorting

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; ELECTROPHORESIS;

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES; CHEMOTAXIS; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; ICSI; IN-VITRO; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES;

CENTRIFUGATION;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMOTAXIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); MORPHOLOGY; MOTILITY; OXYGEN; SPERM;

CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; SPERMATOZOON;

CELL SEPARATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84958206638     PISSN: 07349750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2016.01.007     Document Type: Review

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