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Sperm Preparation Methods

2000· article· en· W1961154935 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Andrology · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSperm and Testicular Function
Canadian institutionsCReATe Fertility Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSpermAndrologyChemistryMedicine

Abstract

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The spermatozoa of all placental (eutherian) mammals, including humans, are in a protective, nonlabile state at ejaculation and are incapable of fertilization even if they are placed in direct contact with an oocyte.Consequently, they must undergo a subsequent period of final maturation during which they acquire the capacity to interact with the oocyte-cumulus complex and achieve fertilization.This process, which was discovered independently by Austin and Chang in 1951, was termed capacitation, and spermatozoa in the ejaculate are prevented from undergoing capacitation by one or more decapacitation factors that are present in the seminal plasma (Yanagimachi, 1994).Capacitation of eutherian spermatozoa is essential for fertilization not only in vivo but also in vitro, and underlies the manipulation of spermatozoa for clinical in vitro fertilization (IVF).Not only does seminal plasma contain one or more decapacitation factors that prevent spontaneous capacitation of spermatozoa upon ejaculation, but it also contains one or more factors to which prolonged exposure has adverse effects on sperm function, including the ability to penetrate cervical mucus (Kremer, 1968), undergo the acrosome reaction in vitro, and the fertilization process in general (Rogers et al, 1983;Mortimer and Mortimer, 1992;Mortimer et al, 1998).Consequently, in order for eutherian spermatozoa to have the capacity to fertilize an oocyte, they must be separated from the seminal plasma, and hence, the separation of human spermatozoa from seminal plasma is an essential prerequisite for them to be able to achieve capacitation and express their intrinsic fertilizing ability.In assisted reproductive technology (ART) laboratories, this need is manifested in the process commonly referred to as ''sperm washing,'' in which spermatozoa are somehow removed from the seminal plasma and resuspended in culture medium.Prolonged exposure (30 minutes) to seminal plasma after ejaculation can permanently diminish the fertilizing capacity of human spermatozoa in vitro (Rogers et al, 1983), and contamination of prepared sperm populations with only traces of seminal plasma can diminish, or even

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.809
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.367
Teacher spread0.348 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it