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A Standardized Approach for Multispecies Purification of Mammalian Male Germ Cells by Mechanical Tissue Dissociation and Flow Cytometry
Published on: July 12, 2017
The flow cytometry for diagnosis of male fertility
Acta Histochemica
|January 1, 1983
Abstract:
The patient came with a severe testicular disturbance (oligoasthenoteratozoospermia) into the department of andrology. After antiphlogistic- and antiestrogen therapy the clinical spermatological findings (spermiograms) were compared with the corresponding histograms of the flow cytometry analysis and interpreted as according with them.
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