Asthenopermia, or asthenozoospermia, is the term used when the percentage of mobile sperm is lower than average. Complete asthenozoospermia, meaning that all sperm cells in a sample are not moving, occurs in about 1 in 5000 men.
Asthenozoospermia results in infertility, as the sperm are unable to swim and reach the egg. This can be overcome using IVF-ICSI techniques.
Teratospermia, also called teratozoospermia, is the term used to describe the condition where a male’s sperm cells have a high amount of abnormal morphology (shapes),
The hamster egg penetration test (HEPT) was first developed in the 1970s. It is observed on the observation that upon removal of the zona pellucida of
The genetic material which determines human characteristics, such as eye color, height, etc, is carried in sets of what are known as chromosomes. Normally, humans
The testes begin to develop around the fifth week of pregnancy, and by birth have undergone a process known as testicular descent, where they move