Chromomycin A3 staining, sperm chromatin structure assay and hyaluronic acid binding assay as predictors for assisted reproductive outcome

 Martine Nijs obtained her PhD in Medical Sciences at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. She is ESHRE accredited senior clinical embryologist. At present, she is the director of the IVF laboratory at the Genk Institute for Fertility Technology in Genk, Belgium. Her main interests are sperm quality, sperm freezing and human embryology. Dr Martine Nijs

☆ Partially presented as an oral communication (0–165) at the 21st Meeting of ESHRE, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19–22, June 2005.Partially presented as a poster at the 31st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology, Chicago, USA, April 8–11, 2006.Partially presented as a poster at the Satellite Sperm DNA workshop in Rome, 11–13 March, 2009.

PII: S1472-6483(09)00064-9

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.07.002

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