Fertility and Sterility
Volume 95, Issue 1 , Pages 105-109 , January 2011

Protamine 1 to protamine 2 ratio correlates with dynamic aspects of DNA fragmentation in human sperm

  • Agustín García-Peiró, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Bellaterra, Spain
    • Càtedra de Recerca Eugin-UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jordi Benet, Ph.D., and Agustín García-Peiró, B.S., Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Unitat de Biologia Cel·lular i Genètica Mèdica, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain (TEL: 34-93-581-1773; FAX: 34-93-581-1025).
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  • Juan Martínez-Heredia, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Bellaterra, Spain
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  • María Oliver-Bonet, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Bellaterra, Spain
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  • Carlos Abad, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Servei d'Urologia, Sabadell, Spain
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  • María José Amengual, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • UDIAT, Consorci Hospitalari Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Spain
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  • Joaquima Navarro, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Bellaterra, Spain
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  • Celine Jones, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  • Kevin Coward, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  • Jaime Gosálvez, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Biología, Unidad de Genética, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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  • Jordi Benet, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Bellaterra, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jordi Benet, Ph.D., and Agustín García-Peiró, B.S., Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Unitat de Biologia Cel·lular i Genètica Mèdica, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain (TEL: 34-93-581-1773; FAX: 34-93-581-1025).

Received 22 April 2010 ,Revised 8 June 2010 ,Accepted 16 June 2010.

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 A.G-P. has nothing to disclose. J.M-H. has nothing to disclose. M.O-B. has nothing to disclose. C.A. has nothing to disclose. M.J.A. has nothing to disclose. J.N. has nothing to disclose. C.J. has nothing to disclose. K.C. has nothing to disclose. J.G. has nothing to disclose. J.B. has nothing to disclose.

 A.G-P. and J.M-H. contributed equally to this work.

 Supported by the Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria (FIS) (PI051834, PI080623), Generalitat de Catalunya (2009 SGR 1107), Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (MCYT) (BFU 2007-66340/BFI), and Càtedra de Recerca Eugin-UAB.

PII: S0015-0282(10)01006-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.06.053

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 95, Issue 1 , Pages 105-109 , January 2011

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