ArticleScientific reports2018
Hydrodynamic Clustering of Human Sperm in Viscoelastic Fluids.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Self-organized vortex phases and hydrodynamic interactions in Bos taurus sperm cells.Physical review. E · 2024Article
- Spermbots and Their Applications in Assisted Reproduction: Current Progress and Future Perspectives.International journal of nanomedicine · 2024Review
- Hydrodynamic clustering of two finite-length flagellated swimmers in viscoelastic fluids.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Rolling controls sperm navigation in response to the dynamic rheological properties of the environment.eLife · 2021Article
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- Modelling Motility: The Mathematics of Spermatozoa.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Collective dynamics of sperm cells.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Computer-assisted beat-pattern analysis and the flagellar waveforms of bovine spermatozoa.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
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Abstract
We have numerically investigated sperm clustering behaviours, modelling cells as superpositions of regularised flow singularities, coarse-grained from experimentally obtained digital microscopy of human sperm, both in watery medium and a highly viscous-weakly elastic, methylcellulose medium. We find that the cell yaw and cell pulling dynamics inhibit clustering in low viscosity media. In contrast clustering is readily visible in simulations modelling sperm within a methylcellulose medium, in line with previous observations that bovine sperm clustering is much more prominent in a rheological polyacrylamide medium. Furthermore, the fine-scale details of sperm flagellar movement substantially impact large-scale collective behaviours, further motivating the need for the digital microscopy and characterization of sperm to understand their dynamics.
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