Microgrooves and fluid flows provide preferential passageways for sperm over pathogen Tritrichomonas foetus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 5431-5436

  Tung, Chih Kuan ^a   Hu, Lian ^b,c   Fiore, Alyssa G ^a   Ardon, Florencia ^b   Hickman, Dillon G ^b   Gilbert, Robert O ^b   Suarez, Susan S ^b   Wu, Mingming ^a  

^a Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cell motility; Cervix; Microfluidics; Microswimmer; Trichomoniasis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COEVOLUTION; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWIMMING; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASE; FERTILITY; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SPERMATOZOON; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE TUBE; VETERINARY ABORTION;

BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CERVIX UTERI; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 84928659911     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500541112     Document Type: Article

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