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ReviewTranslational andrology and urology2018

Microfluidic-based sperm sorting & analysis for treatment of male infertility.

Raheel Samuel, Haidong Feng, Alex Jafek, Dillon Despain, Timothy Jenkins, Bruce Gale

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Review in Translational andrology and urology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Raheel SamuelDepartment of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Haidong FengDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Alex JafekDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Dillon DespainDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Timothy JenkinsDepartment of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Bruce GaleDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
University of Utah · USBrigham Young University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microfluidics technology has emerged as an enabling technology for different fields of medicine and life sciences. One such field is male infertility where microfluidic technologies are enabling optimization of sperm sample preparation and analysis. In this chapter we review how microfluidic technology has been used for sperm quantification, sperm quality analysis, and sperm manipulation and isolation with subsequent use of the purified sperm population for treatment of male infertility. As we discuss demonstrations of microfluidic sperm sorting/manipulation/analysis, we highlight systems that have demonstrated feasibility towards clinical adoption or have reached commercialization in the male infertility market. We then review microfluidic-based systems that facilitate non-invasive identification and sorting of viable sperm for

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Microfluidicssemensperm sorting and analysis

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PMID30159240
PMCPMC6087839
OpenAlexW2806599757

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