The objective of this review was to examine the role of the various spermatozoal
components suspected of actively participating in early human development. The …

Several semen parameters are used to discriminate the fertile male from the subfertile male.
The most widely used parameters are sperm concentration, motility, progressive motility, and …

Unexplained male infertility: potential causes and managemen... : Human Andrology
Unexplained male infertility: potential causes and management : Human Andrology Log in or …

Fertilization depends on successful binding of the spermatozoa to the zona pellucida of the
oocyte. Glycodelin-A inhibits spermatozoa-zona pellucida binding. Previous data showed …

The zona pellucida (ZP) is an extracellular matrix surrounding the oocyte and the early
embryo that exerts several important functions during fertilization and early embryonic …

Conventional semen analysis solely is not completely adequate to predict pregnancy
outcomes. Therefore, advanced sperm function tests have been developed and introduced …

This manuscript reviews sperm morphology and its disorders in the context of infertility. A
new look into an old challenge is delivered, based on contemporary scientific and clinical …

During the past 2 decades, a number of genes have been cloned from mammals which
encode polypeptides that participate in the process of fertilization. Among these are …

Gamete recognition has been studied extensively in the mouse. In this system, it is generally
believed that sperm bind to a class of O-linked oligosaccharides on the zona pellucida …

Unexplained male infertility is a condition in which infertile men have normal semen
analyses on multiple occasions with no obvious physical or endocrine abnormality when …