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SUBMITTER: Perez-Cerezales S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5811574 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pérez-Cerezales Serafín S Laguna-Barraza Ricardo R de Castro Alejandro Chacón AC Sánchez-Calabuig María Jesús MJ Cano-Oliva Esther E de Castro-Pita Francisco Javier FJ Montoro-Buils Luis L Pericuesta Eva E Fernández-González Raúl R Gutiérrez-Adán Alfonso A
Scientific reports 20180213 1
The ejaculate is a heterogeneous pool of spermatozoa containing only a small physiologically adequate subpopulation for fertilization. As there is no method to isolate this subpopulation, its specific characteristics are unknown. This is one of the main reasons why we lack effective tools to identify male infertility and for the low efficiency of assisted reproductive technologies. The aim of this study was to improve ICSI outcome by sperm selection through thermotaxis. Here we show that a speci ...[more]