Apoptosis of ejaculated human sperm is induced by co-incubation with Chlamydia trachomatis lipopolysaccharide | Zendy

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Apoptosis of ejaculated human sperm is induced by co-incubation with Chlamydia trachomatis lipopolysaccharide

Author(s) -

A. Eley,

Saeid Hosseinzadeh,

Hamid Hakimi,

I Geary,

Allan Pacey

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

human reproduction

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.446

H-Index - 226

eISSN - 1460-2350

pISSN - 0268-1161

DOI - 10.1093/humrep/dei082

Subject(s) - chlamydia trachomatis , chlamydiaceae , incubation , andrology , chlamydiales , sperm , apoptosis , chlamydia , biology , lipopolysaccharide , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , immunology , genetics , biochemistry

Previous work has shown that co-incubation of human sperm with Chlamydia trachomatis serovars E and LGV leads to premature sperm death and that this is due primarily to chlamydial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Here, we investigated the possible involvement of apoptosis in this premature sperm death.

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