Revision of hypo-osmotic swelling (HOS) test with a proposition of classified grading system: its comparisons with four different types of human sperm separation …

FN Wang, BY Suh - Archives of andrology, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, we arbitrarily classified the morphological changes of sperm under hypo-
osmotic condition and compared the results with four different sperm separation techniques …

Effect of swim-up, Percoll and Sephadex sperm separation methods on the hypo-osmotic swelling test

JH Check, D Katsoff, J Kozak, D Lurie - Human Reproduction, 1992 - academic.oup.com
The separation of spermatozoa from the seminal plasma is required to prepare the
spermatozoa for intrauterine insemination, in-vitro fertilization and sex selection. This study …

Reappraisal of the hypo‐osmotic swelling test to improve assessment of seminal fertility status

R Smith, M Madariaga… - International journal of …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
The hypo‐osmotic swelling (HOS) test has been proposed as a useful assay for evaluation
of the functional competence of the human sperm membranes. To assess this further, the …

Evaluation of subgroups of the human sperm hypoosmotic swelling test in normozoospermic male cases with recurrent fertilization failure: a prospective case …

T Irez, TA Usta, G Zebitay, E Oral, H Senol… - Archives of gynecology …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose To compare subgroups of the human sperm hypoosmotic swelling test subgroups
in both recurrent fertilization negative infertile cases with normal semen analysis and …

Usefulness of the hypo-osmotic swelling test for evaluation of human sperm fertilization

A Uchida, K Takahashi, M Kitao - Human Reproduction, 1992 - academic.oup.com
We examined spermatozoa from 135 male patients consulting for infertility to evaluate the
usefulness of the hypo-osmotic swelling (HOS) test of sperm fertility for the swim-up washing …

The human sperm hypoosmotic swelling test: its practical application and suggestions for improvement.

N Mordel, S Mor-Yosef, E Margalioth… - … journal of fertility, 1989 - europepmc.org
Semen samples of 209 males of infertile couples were evaluated by the sperm hypoosmotic
swelling (HS) test, the in vitro human sperm zona-free hamster ovum penetration assay …

Relationship between the Human Sperm Hypo‐osmotic Swelling Test and Sperm Penetration Assay

BJ ROGERS, RA PARKER - Journal of andrology, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
The hypo‐osmotic swelling (HOS) test has been proposed as a useful assay in the
diagnosis of the infertile male. A good correlation between the HOS test and the sperm …

Multivariate discriminate analysis of the relationship between the hypo‐osmotic swelling test and the in‐vitro fertilizing capacity of human sperm

SYW Chan, C Wang, M Ng, WWK So… - International journal of …, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
Multivariate discriminant analysis was used to evaluate the usefulness of routine semen
parameters and the hypo‐osmotic swelling test (HOST) as predictors of the in‐vitro fertilizing …

Differential evaluation of human sperm hypoosmotic swelling test and its relationship with the outcome of in-vitro fertilization of human oocytes

SYW Chan, C Wang, STH Chan, PC Ho - Human Reproduction, 1990 - academic.oup.com
The hypoosmotic swelling test is a simple laboratory test to measure the functional integrity
of the human sperm membrane. Its in-vivo and in-vitro applicability needs to be evaluated …

Human sperm hypo-osmotic swelling test: relationship to sperm fertilizing ability.

RD McClure, R Tom - International journal of fertility, 1991 - europepmc.org
The simple hypo-osmotic swelling test (HOS) has been proposed as a replacement for the
labor-intensive sperm penetration assay (SPA), but its reliability is still controversial. To …