Sperm selection in natural conception: What can we learn from Mother Nature to improve assisted reproduction outcomes?

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 711-726

  Sakkas, Denny ^a   Ramalingam, Mythili ^b   Garrido, Nicolas ^c   Barratt, Christopher L R ^b  

^a BOSTON IVF   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c IVI Valencia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fallopian tube; Sperm selection; Spermatozoa; Uterine tube; Uterus; Vagina

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAGNETIC ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; METABOLOMICS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERM QUALITY; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERM SELECTION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLOMICS; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM MATURATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84947595248     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmv042     Document Type: Article

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