This volume, and its companion volume on the oocyte, provide a wide-ranging analysis of the gametes and their reproductive role in humans. The authors give a detailed account of the spermatozoon that includes particularly helpful information on male infertility and its treatment. The book starts with an evolutionary perspective before focusing on the molecular and cellular biology of the sperm cell and its structure and function. It describes the development and maturation of sperm and their movement and transport in the male and female genital tract. It also covers practical issues such as sperm storage and assisted contraception. This volume will be an essential source of information for all clinicians and scientists with an interest in human reproduction.
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"This book is a mine of information about spermatozoa which will appeal to students who want to know the basic facts about sperm biology. It will also appeal to their lecturers who will want to use the excellent diagrams for teaching. However, the book will also successfully appeal to those directly involved in gamete research; it represents a single source of detailed review written by scientists who have all made distinguished contributions in their respective specialisms. Few volumes achieve this quality, whilst at the same time remaining portable enough to be carried around easily and read on the train." W.V. Holt, Journal of Anatomy
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Providing a wide-ranging analysis of the gametes and their reproductive role in humans, this text includes a detailed account of the spermatozoon. It contains particularly helpful information on male infertility and its treatment for clinicians and scientists.
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The proper background to a discussion on the evolution of human gametes would seem naturally to be a survey of facts relating to the evolution of living forms and, more particularly, that of the human species; such a survey is set out at the beginning of the companion paper to the present one, which appears in the publication Gametes: The Oocyte. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sperm head displacement, sperm preps, outer dense fibres, sperm hyperactivation, mammalian sperm surface, mucus column, capacitating conditions, man heterozygous, acrosome reaction, antispermatozoal antibodies, hyperactivated motility, caput region, acrosomal exocytosis, human sperm capacitation, oligozoospermic patients, sperm chromosomal abnormalities, human sperm chromosomes, seminal sperm, human epididymis, human sperm function, human spermatozoa, human spermatozoon, sperm karyotypes, hyperactivated sperm, reaction following ionophore challenge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fertil Steril, New York, Hum Genet, Biol Reprod, Reprod Fertil, Hum Reprod, Gamete Res, Cell Biol, Boca Raton, World Health Organization, Raven Press, Cambridge University Press, Plenum Press, Serono Symposia, Academic Press, Devel Biol, Gam Res, Med Genet, Obstet Gynecol, Proc Natl Acad Sci, Biol Chem, Cytogenet Cell Genet, Der Biol, Japan Scientific Societies Press, Med Ethics New!
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The proper background to a discussion on the evolution of human gametes would seem naturally to be a survey of facts relating to the evolution of living forms and, more particularly, that of the human species; such a survey is set out at the beginning of the companion paper to the present one, which appears in the publication Gametes: The Oocyte. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sperm head displacement, sperm preps, outer dense fibres, sperm hyperactivation, mammalian sperm surface, mucus column, capacitating conditions, man heterozygous, acrosome reaction, antispermatozoal antibodies, hyperactivated motility, caput region, acrosomal exocytosis, human sperm capacitation, oligozoospermic patients, sperm chromosomal abnormalities, human sperm chromosomes, seminal sperm, human epididymis, human sperm function, human spermatozoa, human spermatozoon, sperm karyotypes, hyperactivated sperm, reaction following ionophore challenge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fertil Steril, New York, Hum Genet, Biol Reprod, Reprod Fertil, Hum Reprod, Gamete Res, Cell Biol, Boca Raton, World Health Organization, Raven Press, Cambridge University Press, Plenum Press, Serono Symposia, Academic Press, Devel Biol, Gam Res, Med Genet, Obstet Gynecol, Proc Natl Acad Sci, Biol Chem, Cytogenet Cell Genet, Der Biol, Japan Scientific Societies Press, Med Ethics New!
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- Fertilization in Mammals (Serono Symposia) by Barry D. Bavister on 5 pages
- Physiology of Reproduction (2-Volume Set) by Ernst Knobil on page 69, page 155, and page 267
- Controls of Sperm Motility: Biological and Clinical Aspects by Claude Gagnon on page 101, page 102, and page 103
- New Horizons in Sperm Cell Research by H. Mohri on page 16, page 17, and page 18
- Spermatozoa, Antibodies and Infertility by Jack S Cohen on page 19, and page 173
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