… procedures. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether elimination of apoptotic spermatozoa
could increase the likelihood of pregnancy by intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). A …

… sperm preparation, isolates spermatozoa with higher … apoptotic spermatozoa remains
limited [22]. Furthermore, considering the fact that sperm which has entered process of apoptosis, …

… of defected spermatozoa, the definition of apoptosis seems not … , these spermatozoa will be
described as having apoptotic … apoptotic markers and the fertilization rate in ICSI procedure, …

… in 3 subgroups considering the apoptosis markers A) TUNEL R20… Considering the sperm
apoptosis status, interestingly subgroups A… of spermatozoa for ICSI, were significantly higher in …

… the number of apoptotic spermatozoa improving pregnancy rates in ICSI patients with high
… out to evaluate the full value of integrating MACS during sperm preparation before ICSI. …

… oocytes after ICSI treatment and to verify that apoptotic events can … of apoptosis pathway.
Our study demonstrated that in human oocytes and in some spermatozoa an apoptotic process …

… low quality spermatozoa for ICSI treatment. In the natural selection process, spermatozoa
with … We hypothesize that spermatozoa in which the apoptotic process is triggered first stop to …

… This novel method for selecting non-apoptotic spermatozoa for ICSI is safe and reliable, and
… human spermatozoa by MACS is a safe and reliable method to prepare sperm cells for ICSI. …

… that combined double density gradient centrifugation and magnetic activation cell sorting
(MACS) separating apoptotic from non-apoptotic spermatozoa. This resulted in a suspension of …

… for ICSI treatment are summarized in Table 1. The correlation among different sperm factors
such as apoptosis, … even those injected spermatozoa with intracellular damage such as DF, …