BACKGROUND The risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission during assisted reproductive techniques (ARTs) is still disputed and no report concerning its prospective evaluation is available. METHODS The aim of this 4-year follow-up multicentre study that enrolled 86 HCV-serodiscordant couples was to determine whether a sperm-processing method was able to reduce levels of HCV in semen and the ...

The recent discovery of a significant amount of RNA in spermatozoa contradicted the previously held belief that paternal contribution was limited to one copy of the genome. Furthermore, detection of RNA in sperm raised the intriguing question of its possible role in embryonic development. The possibility that RNAs may serve as epigenetic determinants was supported by experiments showing inherit...

important aspect of sperm function such as motility and capacitation appear to be mediated at least partially though hyaloronic acid (ha). present study investigated effects of different doses of ha on sperm motility and vitality in human. sperm was obtained from 20 male from ivf clinic in imam khomeini hospital. sperm motility and vitality in human semen was analyzed according to who criteria ...

introduction: cd59 is a complement control protein (ccp) wich exhibits its inhibitory functions by prevention of complement attack complex (max) formation. the aim of this normozoospermia, olig-astheno and azoospermia. materials and methods: the semen of 57 individual were grouped to normozoospermia (8), asthenozoospermia (21), oligo-astenozoospermia (16), and azoospermia (12) according to who ...

DNA breakage detection-fluorescence in situ hybridization (DBD-FISH) is a procedure to detect and quantify DNA breaks in situ, on a cell-by-cell basis. A comparison between sperm nuclei versus peripheral blood leukocytes using this method demonstrated that the nucleoids from mature human sperm are 12.7 times more sensitive to alkaline denaturation than those from human peripheral blood leukocyt...

The current study aimed to detect specific types of ADAM proteins in the bovine sperm. Histology tissue male reproduction was involved with testis, head, body, and tail epididymis. Results showed that testis composed parenchyma contained seminiferous tubules which are surrounded by two layers externally tunica vaginalis internally albuginea. PAS positive lumen, epithelium body epididymis, Where...

The aim of this study was (1) to analy�e fresh intact or differently influenced rabbit sperm samples, using Annexin V–binding method for the detection of membrane phosphatidylserine translocation, and (2) to estimate obtained results in relation to the conceptional rate of rabbit females fertili�ed with semen from different groups. Following sample groups were designed: 1. freshly collected sem...

Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are the most frequently sexually transmitted viruses and etiological agents of several human cancers. Controversial results of the role of HPV in infertile population on sperm parameters have been published. The aim of this study was to estimate the type-specific prevalence of HPV DNA infection of the external genitalia and semen in 340 Slovenian men from infertile ...