Journal of Andrology Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Epididymis
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Comparison of sperm DNA fragmentation in infertile men and fertile donors; values are mean ± SEM; different superscript lowercase letters show statistical difference (P < .05) within rows; different superscript capital letters show statistical difference within columns (P < .05)*
    SCSA   TUNEL   SCD   AOT

  Infertile men (n = 60)   22.0 ± 1.6aA   19.5 ± 1.3aA   20.4 ± 1.3aA   31.3 ± 2.4bA
  Donors (n = 7)   11.8 ± 1.4aB   11.1 ± 0.9aB   10.8 ± 1.1aB   32.7 ± 4.8bA

  *SCSA indicates sperm chromatin structure assay; TUNEL, TdT-mediated-dUTP nick and labeling; SCD, sperm chromatin dispersion; and AOT, acridine orange staining technique





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