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The response of rhesus monkey sperm motility to cervical mucus and solid surfaces

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Katz, DF; Phillips, DM
Published in: Gamete Research
January 1, 1986

Movement characteristics of rhesus monkey spermatozoa were analyzed using high‐speed cinemicrography. In the first experiment, spermatozoa were studied at 100 frames/sec in diluted semen near a surface, and after entering ovulatory cervical mucus from a bonnet monkey. In mucus, the spermatozoa swam more slowly, with reduced flagellar beat frequencies. The beat shape was altered, and there was less lateral yawing of the sperm head. In the second experiment, spermatozoa in diluted semen were studied at 500 frames/sec in deep preparations, while swimming near a surface or when in the midplane of these preparations. Those sperm in the midplane swam faster, but with lower beat frequencies than those near the surface, and exhibited much more pronounced yawing motions. Such distinctions in sperm motion are probably hydromechanical in origin and may be significant during transport in the female. Copyright © 1986 Alan R. Liss, Inc.

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Gamete Research

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1554-3919

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0148-7280

Publication Date

January 1, 1986

Volume

13

Issue

3

Start / End Page

231 / 239
 

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Katz, D. F., & Phillips, D. M. (1986). The response of rhesus monkey sperm motility to cervical mucus and solid surfaces. Gamete Research, 13(3), 231–239. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrd.1120130306
Katz, D. F., and D. M. Phillips. “The response of rhesus monkey sperm motility to cervical mucus and solid surfaces.” Gamete Research 13, no. 3 (January 1, 1986): 231–39. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrd.1120130306.
Katz DF, Phillips DM. The response of rhesus monkey sperm motility to cervical mucus and solid surfaces. Gamete Research. 1986 Jan 1;13(3):231–9.
Katz, D. F., and D. M. Phillips. “The response of rhesus monkey sperm motility to cervical mucus and solid surfaces.” Gamete Research, vol. 13, no. 3, Jan. 1986, pp. 231–39. Scopus, doi:10.1002/mrd.1120130306.
Katz DF, Phillips DM. The response of rhesus monkey sperm motility to cervical mucus and solid surfaces. Gamete Research. 1986 Jan 1;13(3):231–239.

Published In

Gamete Research

DOI

EISSN

1554-3919

ISSN

0148-7280

Publication Date

January 1, 1986

Volume

13

Issue

3

Start / End Page

231 / 239