Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine

Yazarlar: Filiz YILMAZ

Konular:Sağlık Bilimleri ve Hizmetleri

DOI:10.32322/jhsm.660649

Anahtar Kelimeler:Sperm,Semanalysis,Infertility

Özet: Infertility is the condition that pregnancy does not occur at the end of a year despite unprotected and regular sexual intercouse, affects 10-15% of couples in the reproductive age group. The causes of infertility a real most equally divided between male and female factors; each accounts for about 40% of infertility cases, while there maining 20% is due to combined effect of both. In most male patients, the molecular mechanisms responsible for infertility are unkown. Etiology includes genetic, epigenetic, systemic and environmental factors, or combinations of these factors. Several tests have been developed to evaluate sperm function, but any test has yet been found to predict sperm fertilization capacity. Today, molecular mechanism of sperm production, maturation and pathogenesis of male infertility are being investigated with new methods such as genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic thanks to developing technology. This review discusses the past, present and future of sperm evaluation tests.

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