FSH treatment in infertile males candidate to assisted reproduction improved sperm DNA fragmentation and pregnancy rate

Endocrine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 416-425

  Garolla, Andrea ^a   Ghezzi, Marco ^a   Cosci, Ilaria ^a   Sartini, Barbara ^a   Bottacin, Alberto ^a   Engl, Bruno ^b   Di Nisio, Andrea ^a   Foresta, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Azienda Sanitaria Alto Adige   (Italy)

Author keywords

FSH treatment; IVF ICSI outcome; Male Infertility; Sperm DNA damage

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE; DNA; FOLLITROPIN; GAMMA H2AX; HISTONE H2AX; SEX HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AO TEST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOFLUOROMETRY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TUNEL ASSAY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84980048043     PISSN: 1355008X     EISSN: 15590100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12020-016-1037-z     Document Type: Article

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