| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Sperm Selection for ART Success Sperm Selection for ART Success / R. John Aitken -- New Horizons in Male Subfertility and Infertility / Brett Nixon and Elizabeth G. Bromfield -- Chromosome Abnormalities and the Infertile Male / Csilla Krausz and Viktoria Rosta -- The Effect of Endocrine Disruptors and Environmental and Lifestyle Factors on the Sperm Epigenome / Viviane Santana, Albert Salas-Huetos, Emma R. James and Douglas T. Carrel -- Lifestyle Factors and Sperm Quality / Ciara Wright -- The Effect of Age on Male Fertility and the Health of Offspring / Allan Pacey and Sarah Martins da Silva -- The Assessment and Role of Anti-Sperm Antibodies / Gary N. Clarke -- FSH Treatment in Male Infertility / Csilla Krausz, Viktoria Rosta and Alberto Ferlin -- Antioxidants to Improve Sperm Quality / Elena Martínez Holguín, Enrique Lledó García, Ángel Rebollo Román, Javier González -- García, José Jara Rascón and Carlos Hernández Fernández -- The History of Utilization of IVF For Male Factor Subfertility / Gabor T. Kovacs -- The Case Against Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection For All / David Mortimer and Sharon T. Mortimer -- Perinatal Outcomes From IVF and ICSI / Michael Davies -- Artificial Insemination With Partner's Sperm, For Male Subfertility / Willem Ombelet -- Obstructive Azoospermia : Is There a Place For Microsurgical Testicular Sperm surgical Testicular Sperm Extraction / Ahmad Aboukhshaba, Russell P. Hayden and Peter N. Schlegel -- Should Varicocele Be Operated On Before IVF? / Shannon H.K. Kim and Victoria Nisenblat -- Donor Insemination -Past, Present and Future Perspectives / Christopher LR Barratt, Rachel Agnew and Eleanor Heighton -- DNA Damage in Spermatozoa / Russell P. Hayden, Ahmad Aboukhshaba and Peter N. Schlegel -- Prevention of Male Infertility : From Childhood to Adulthood / Alberto Ferlin |
| Summary |
"This chapter describes techniques for the preparation of human spermatozoa for assisted conception. Traditional swim-up techniques depend on the intrinsic motility of human spermatozoa and have been used as the basis for new microfluidics devices that exploit the capacity of these cells for chemotaxis, rheotaxis or thermotaxis. Unfortunately, such self-migration strategies tend to lose effectiveness with pathological samples exhibiting poor levels of motility and/or diminished counts. With such compromised starting material, active selection of spermatozoa can be achieved by exploiting differences between sperm populations in their density or charge. Density gradient centrifugation selects spermatozoa with minimal residual cytoplasm that are highly motile and have good morphology, even though the induction of sperm DNA damage in certain patients may be problematical. Alternatively, methodologies based on differences in sperm charge, appear to hold promise for the rapid, efficient isolation of highly motile human spermatozoa that consistently exhibit low levels of DNA damage"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 28, 2020) |
| Subject |
Infertility, Male.
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Infertility, Male -- Treatment
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Infertility, Male -- etiology
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Infertility, Male -- therapy
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Fertilization in Vitro
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Spermatozoa -- physiology
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Infertility, Male
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Infertility, Male
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Infertility, Male -- Treatment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aitken, R. J., editor
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Mortimer, David, 1953- editor.
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Kovacs, Gabor, 1947 April 6- editor.
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| LC no. |
2019040381 |
| ISBN |
9781108762571 |
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1108762573 |
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