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Importance of sperm morphology during sperm transport and fertilization in mammals.
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- Methyl Gallate Enhances Post-Thaw Boar Sperm Quality by Alleviating Oxidative Stress and Preserving Mitochondrial Function.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Dynamic architecture of mammalian paternal chromatin: histone-to-protamine exchange and post-fertilization reprogramming.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2025Review
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- Perinuclear theca protein FNDC8 interacts with CCIN and ACTL7A to ensure proper sperm head shaping during spermiogenesis.Zoological research · 2025Article
- D-Mannose-Mediated metabolic pathways sustain the molecular signatures of sperm function and fertilization.Journal of advanced research · 2025Article
- Imiquimod (R837), a TLR7-Specific Agonist, Regulates Boar Sperm Motility via PI3K/GSK3α/β/Hexokinase Pathway.Biology · 2025Article
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- Standardisation of Dog Sperm Morphology Classification.Reproduction in domestic animals = Zuchthygiene · 2025Article
- Elevated Lipid Concentrations in Seminal Plasma Can Reduce Sperm Motility in Simmental Bulls.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Assessment of Boar Semen Morphology and Morphometry.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Review
- Mitochondrial morphology in fertile and infertile men: image processing and morphometric analysis of the sperm midpiece.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Article
- Comparative Analysis of mRNA and lncRNA Expression Profiles in Testicular Tissue of Sexually Immature and Sexually Mature Mongolian Horses.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Punicalagin Protects Ram Sperm from Oxidative Stress by Enhancing Antioxidant Capacity and Mitochondrial Potential during Liquid Storage at 4 °C.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Assessing Optimal Cell Counts in Sperm Shape Abnormality Assays in Rodents.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
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Abstract
After natural or artificial insemination, the spermatozoon starts a journey from the site of deposition to the place of fertilization. However, only a small subset of the spermatozoa deposited achieves their goal: to reach and fertilize the egg. Factors involved in controlling sperm transport and fertilization include the female reproductive tract environment, cell-cell interactions, gene expression, and phenotypic sperm traits. Some of the significant determinants of fertilization are known (i.e., motility or DNA status), but many sperm traits are still indecipherable. One example is the influence of sperm dimensions and shape upon transport within the female genital tract towards the oocyte. Biophysical associations between sperm size and motility may influence the progression of spermatozoa through the female reproductive tract, but uncertainties remain concerning how sperm morphology influences the fertilization process, and whether only the sperm dimensions per se are involved. Moreover, such explanations do not allow the possibility that the female tract is capable of distinguishing fertile spermatozoa on the basis of their morphology, as seems to be the case with biochemical, molecular, and genetic properties. This review focuses on the influence of sperm size and shape in evolution and their putative role in sperm transport and selection within the uterus and the ability to fertilize the oocyte.
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