Exhaustion of racing sperm in nature-mimicking microfluidic channels during sorting.
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چکیده
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.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
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دوره 9 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013