Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 5, Supplement , Pages 2221-2229 , May 2009

Deoxyribonucleic acid repair and apoptosis in testicular germ cells of aging fertile men: the role of the poly(adenosine diphosphate-ribosyl)ation pathway

  • Moetaz M. El-Domyati, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Andrology, Al-Minya Faculty of Medicine, Al-Minya, Egypt
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  • Abo-Bakr M. Al-Din, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Surgery, Al-Minya Faculty of Medicine, Al-Minya, Egypt
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  • Manal T. Barakat, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Andrology, Al-Minya Faculty of Medicine, Al-Minya, Egypt
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  • Hasan M. El-Fakahany, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Andrology, Al-Minya Faculty of Medicine, Al-Minya, Egypt
    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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  • Jiasen Xu, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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  • Denny Sakkas, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Denny Sakkas, Ph.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, P.O. Box 208063, New Haven, CT 06520-8063 (FAX: 203-785-7134).

Received 7 December 2007 ,Revised 9 March 2008 ,Accepted 11 March 2008.

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 M.M.E.-D. has nothing to disclose. A.-B.M.A.D. has nothing to disclose. M.T.B. has nothing to disclose. H.M.E.-F. has nothing to disclose. J.X. has nothing to disclose. D.S. has nothing to disclose.

 Dr. El-Fakahany was supported by a fellowship from the Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau.

 Presented in part at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, June 18–21, 2006, Prague, Czech Republic.

PII: S0015-0282(08)00598-0

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.03.027

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 5, Supplement , Pages 2221-2229 , May 2009

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