Analysis of sperm concentration and motility in a microfluidic device

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-67

  Chen, Yu An ^a   Huang, Zi Wei ^a   Tsai, Fang Sheng ^b   Chen, Chang Yu ^a   Lin, Cheng Ming ^a   Wo, Andrew M ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Infertility; Microfluidics; Resistive pulse technique; Sperm

Indexed keywords

CONTROL METHODS; INFERTILITY; MICRO DEVICES; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; PULSE NUMBER; PULSE TECHNIQUE; RESISTIVE PULSE TECHNIQUE; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SPERM; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM QUALITY;

FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79551497656     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-010-0646-8     Document Type: Article

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