| Literature DB >> 23677651 |
Savas Tasoglu1, Hooman Safaee, Xiaohui Zhang, James L Kingsley, Paolo N Catalano, Umut Atakan Gurkan, Aida Nureddin, Emre Kayaalp, Raymond M Anchan, Richard L Maas, Erkan Tüzel, Utkan Demirci.
Abstract
Fertilization is central to the survival and propagation of a species, however, the precise mechanisms that regulate the sperm's journey to the egg are not well understood. In nature, the sperm has to swim through the cervical mucus, akin to a microfluidic channel. Inspired by this, a simple, cost-effective microfluidic channel is designed on the same scale. The experimental results are supported by a computational model incorporating the exhaustion time of sperm.Entities:
Keywords: biodesign; fertility; microfluidic sorting; sperm exhaustion; sperm sorting
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23677651 PMCID: PMC3821799 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201300020
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Small ISSN: 1613-6810 Impact factor: 13.281