Expression of a2 vacuolar ATPase in spermatozoa is associated with semen quality and chemokine-cytokine profiles in infertile men.

BACKGROUND:A number of laboratory tests have been developed to determine properties of spermatozoa quality but few have been adopted into routine clinical use in place of the WHO semen analysis. We investigated whether Atp6v0a2 (a2 isoform of vacuolar ATPase) is associated with abnormal semen qualit...

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Main Authors: Kuniaki Ota, Mukesh Kumar Jaiswal, Sivakumar Ramu, Rajasinjham Jeyendran, Joanne Kwak-Kim, Alice Gilman-Sachs, Kenneth D Beaman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3728098?pdf=render