Spermometer: electrical characterization of single boar sperm motility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 773-780.e6

  de Wagenaar, Bjorn ^a   Geijs, Daan J ^a   de Boer, Hans ^a   Bomer, Johan G ^a   Olthuis, Wouter ^a   van den Berg, Albert ^a   Segerink, Loes I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cell trapping; impedance sensing; Microfluidic platform; single sperm analysis; sperm motility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMPEDANCE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PIG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; ANIMAL; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; LAB ON A CHIP; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPERMATOZOON; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTOR; VIDEORECORDING;

CAFFEINE;

ANIMALS; CAFFEINE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MALE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SUS SCROFA; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84979656972     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.05.008     Document Type: Article

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