Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 21, Issue 5 , Pages 718-720 , November 2010

Erythropoietin receptor-like immunostaining on human spermatozoa

  • Niyazi Tug

      Affiliations

    • Yeditepe University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
    • Zeynep Kamil Hospital, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Istanbul, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Ulkan Kilic

      Affiliations

    • Yeditepe University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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  • Ates Karateke

      Affiliations

    • Yeditepe University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
    • Zeynep Kamil Hospital, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Istanbul, Turkey
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  • Bayram Yilmaz

      Affiliations

    • Yeditepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Physiology, Istanbul, Turkey
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  • Milas Ugur

      Affiliations

    • Yeditepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Physiology, Istanbul, Turkey
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  • Ertugrul Kilic

      Affiliations

    • Yeditepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Physiology, Istanbul, Turkey

Received 22 March 2010 ,Revised 21 May 2010 ,Accepted 26 May 2010.

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  5. Tug, N., Altunkaynak, M.E., Aktas, R.G., et al., 2009. Does erythropoietin affect motility of spermatozoa? Arch. Gynecol. Obstet. [Epub ahead of print, doi: 10.1007/s00404-009-1289-4].

 Niyazi Tug, MD is a graduate of Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine (1995)and served his residency at Firat University, Faculty of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department (2002). His current position is gynaecologist in Zeynep Kamil Hospital.All of the authors equally contributed to this work.

PII: S1472-6483(10)00401-3

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.05.022

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 21, Issue 5 , Pages 718-720 , November 2010

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