Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 1 , Pages 121-127 , January 2006

Dimensional assessment of X-bearing and Y-bearing haploid and disomic human sperm with the use of fluorescence in situ hybridization and objective morphometry

Part of this research was presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology, Phoenix, Arizona, March 29–April 2, 2003.

  • Zoltan Zavaczki, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Szent-Györgi University School of Medicine, Szeged, Hungary
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  • Ciler Celik-Ozenci, DDS, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Histology and Embryology, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
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  • Laszlo Ovari

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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  • Attila Jakab, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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  • G. Leyla Sati, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Histology and Embryology, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
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  • David C. Ward, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Hospital for Cancer Care and Research, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada
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  • Gabor Huszar, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Sperm Physiology Laboratory, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Gabor Huszar, M.D., Sperm Physiology Laboratory, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 (FAX: 203-737-1200)

Received 7 April 2005 ,Revised 5 July 2005 ,Accepted 5 July 2005.

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 This work was supported by the National Institute of Health (HD-19505, OH-04061).

PII: S0015-0282(05)03597-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.07.1295

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 1 , Pages 121-127 , January 2006

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