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ArticleIranian journal of medical sciences2020

The Effects of EGTA on the Quality of Fresh and Cryopreserved-Thawed Human Spermatozoa.

Bahareh Ebrahimi, Sara Keshtgar

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Article in Iranian journal of medical sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Molecular Constraints of Sperm Sex Sorting via TLR7/8 Activation.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
    Review
  3. A Pilot Analysis of Whole Transcriptome of Human Cryopreserved Sperm.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bahareh EbrahimiDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Sara KeshtgarDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSperm cryopreservation-thawing process has damaging effects on the structure and function of sperm, namely cryoinjury. Calcium overload has been reported as a postulated mechanism for sperm damage during the first steps after thawing. This study was designed to assess the intracellular calcium (Ca

methodsForty semen samples were obtained from fertile men (March 2017 to 2018). The samples were randomly divided into fresh (F) and cryopreserved-thawed (CT) groups. The F and CT samples were divided into control and 1 mM EGTA-treated groups. Sperm kinematics and membrane integrity were assessed. The reactive oxygen species (ROS) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) were measured by luminescent methods. Ca

resultsCryopreservation decreased sperm motility, viability, membrane integrity, Ca

conclusionDespite Ca

Indexed as

CalciumCryopreservationEgtazic acidSpermatozoa

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PMID32546885
PMCPMC7253491
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