Testing human sperm chemotaxis: How to detect biased motion in population assays

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Armon, Leah ^a   Caplan, S Roy ^a   Eisenbach, Michael ^a   Friedrich, Benjamin M ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL MOTION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CHEMOTAXIS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 84857842661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032909     Document Type: Article

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