Sperm telomere length in motile sperm selection techniques: A qFISH approach

Andrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Lafuente, R ^a   Bosch Rue, E ^b   Ribas Maynou, J ^b   Alvarez, J ^c,d   Brassesco, C ^a   Amengual, M J ^e   Benet, J ^b   Garcia Peiro A ^b   Brassesco, M ^a  

^a Centro de Infertilidad y Reproduccion Humana   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Centro ANDROGEN   (Spain)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Centre de Salut Mental   (Spain)

Author keywords

male infertility; sperm; telomere

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; COMET ASSAY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH; TELOMERE SHORTENING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROCEDURES; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

BIOMARKERS; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TELOMERE;

EID: 85022326348     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/and.12840     Document Type: Article

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