Predominance of sperm motion in corners

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Nosrati, Reza ^a   Graham, Percival J ^a   Liu, Qiaozhi ^a   Sinton, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALLOPIAN TUBE; GEOMETRY; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGING; MOTION; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SWIMMING; TRAVEL; VISCOSITY; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CYTOLOGY; LAB ON A CHIP; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MALE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84969945016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep26669     Document Type: Article

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