A FIRST PROSPECTIVE-STUDY OF THE INDIVIDUAL STRAIGHT-LINE VELOCITY OFTHE SPERMATOZOON AND ITS INFLUENCES ON THE FERTILIZATION RATE AFTER INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION

Authors
VANDENBERGH M EMILIANI S BIRAMANE J VANNIN AS ENGLERT Y
Citation
M. Vandenbergh et al., A FIRST PROSPECTIVE-STUDY OF THE INDIVIDUAL STRAIGHT-LINE VELOCITY OFTHE SPERMATOZOON AND ITS INFLUENCES ON THE FERTILIZATION RATE AFTER INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION, Human reproduction (Oxford. Print), 13(11), 1998, pp. 3103-3107
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Reproductive Biology","Obsetric & Gynecology
Journal title
Human reproduction (Oxford. Print) → ACNP
ISSN journal
02681161
Volume
13
Issue
11
Year of publication
1998
Pages
3103 - 3107
Database
ISI
SICI code
0268-1161(1998)13:11<3103:AFPOTI>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
The straight line velocity of 500 individual spermatozoa was measured immediately before their direct injection into the cytoplasm of 500 me taphase II oocytes, The straight line velocity (VSL) did not have a no rmal distribution (P < 0.01) and ranged between 0 and 35 mu m/s. The f ertilization rate (84%) was significantly (P < 0.008) higher in the qu artile of the sperm population with the highest VSL compared to the fe rtilization rate (68 %) in the quartile with the lowest VSL, Embryo cl eavage and embryo quality were not different in the quartiles of the s perm population used for injection.