Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 5 , Pages 1638-1645 , November 2009

Sperm DNA fragmentation levels in testicular sperm samples from azoospermic males as assessed by the sperm chromatin dispersion (SCD) test

  • Marcos Meseguer, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • IVI, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Marcos Meseguer, Ph.D., Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad, Plaza de la Policía Local, 3, Valencia 46015, Spain (FAX: 34-96-3050999).
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  • Rebeca Santiso, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Sección de Genética y Unidad de Investigación, Hospital “Teresa Herrera,” Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Juan Canalejo, A Coruña, Spain
    • Centro Oncologico de Galicia, A Coruña, Spain
    • ,
  • Nicolas Garrido, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • IVI, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
    • ,
  • Manuel Gil-Salom, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • IVI, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
    • ,
  • Jose Remohí, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • IVI, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
    • ,
  • Jose Luis Fernandez, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Sección de Genética y Unidad de Investigación, Hospital “Teresa Herrera,” Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Juan Canalejo, A Coruña, Spain
    • Centro Oncologico de Galicia, A Coruña, Spain

Received 2 June 2008 ,Revised 20 August 2008 ,Accepted 20 August 2008.

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 M.M. has nothing to disclose. R.S. has nothing to disclose. N.G. has nothing to disclose. M.G.-S. has nothing to disclose. J.R. has nothing to disclose. J.L.F. has nothing to disclose.

 This work was presented in part at the 33rd meeting of the American Society of Andrology, Albuquerque, NM, April 2008.

 This work was supported by IMPIVA IMIDTF/2007/182 (Generalitat Valenciana) and Xunta de Galicia INCITE07PXI916201ES.

PII: S0015-0282(08)03727-8

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.08.106

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 5 , Pages 1638-1645 , November 2009

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