Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 5, Supplement , Pages 2253-2263 , May 2009

Effect of tamoxifen treatment on global and insulin-like growth factor 2-H19 locus-specific DNA methylation in rat spermatozoa and its association with embryo loss

Received 4 April 2008 ,Revised 13 June 2008 ,Accepted 9 July 2008.

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 S.P. has nothing to disclose. N.K-M has nothing to disclose. M.S. has nothing to disclose. R.D. has nothing to disclose. A.M. has nothing to disclose. P.P. has nothing to disclose. M.G-S. has nothing to disclose. N.B. has nothing to disclose.

 The study (NIRRH/MS/5/23006) was supported by the Indian Council for Medical Research, New Delhi, India under “Genomics.”

PII: S0015-0282(08)01484-2

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.07.1709

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 5, Supplement , Pages 2253-2263 , May 2009

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