Development of sorting, aligning, and orienting motile sperm using microfluidic device operated by hydrostatic pressure

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 561-570

  Seo, Duck Bong ^a   Agca, Yuksel ^b   Feng, Z C ^a   Critser, John K ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Microfluidics; Motile sperm sorting

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELLS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICROSCOPES;

INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE; VITRO FERTILIZATION;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 34447622063     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-006-0142-3     Document Type: Article

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