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Lack of association between smoking and DNA fragmentation in the spermatozoa of normal men*
1 Jun 2000
Abstract excerpt
Male factor infertility patients can have anomalies in their sperm nuclei, displaying high levels of loosely packaged chromatin and damaged DNA. The primary objectives of this study were to compare the extent of DNA fragmentation in the spermatozoa of healthy light and heavy smokers versus non-smokers, and to investigate its correlation with concentrations of the smoking markers cotinine and cadmium. A secondary...
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