Sperm Motility

"Sperm Motility" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Movement characteristics of SPERMATOZOA in a fresh specimen. It is measured as the percentage of sperms that are moving, and as the percentage of sperms with productive flagellar motion such as rapid, linear, and forward progression.

Descriptor ID	D013081
MeSH Number(s)	E01.370.225.992.812 E05.200.992.812 G04.198.750
Concept/Terms	Sperm Motility Sperm Motility Motilities, Sperm Motility, Sperm Sperm Motilities

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Sperm Motility".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Diagnosis [E01]
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures [E01.370]
Clinical Laboratory Techniques [E01.370.225]
Semen Analysis [E01.370.225.992]
Sperm Motility [E01.370.225.992.812]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Clinical Laboratory Techniques [E05.200]
Semen Analysis [E05.200.992]
Sperm Motility [E05.200.992.812]
Biological Sciences [G]
Cell Physiological Phenomena [G04]
Cell Movement [G04.198]
Sperm Motility [G04.198.750]

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Bar chart showing 16 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2007 and 2017 and 2018 and 2019 and 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1997	0	1	1
1999	0	1	1
2000	0	1	1
2007	1	1	2
2012	0	1	1
2015	0	1	1
2016	1	0	1
2017	2	0	2
2018	0	2	2
2019	1	1	2
2020	0	2	2

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Sharara F, Seaman E, Morris R, Schinfeld J, Nichols J, Sobel M, Lee A, Somkuti S, Hirshberg S, Budinetz T, Barmat L, Palermo G, Rosenwaks Z, Bar-Chama N, Bodie J, Nichols J, Payne J, McCoy T, Tarnawa E, Whitman-Elia G, Weissmann L, Doukakis M, Hurwitz J, Leondires M, Murdock C, Ressler I, Richlin S, Williams S, Wosnitzer M, Butcher M, Kashanian J, Ahlering P, Aubuchon M, Ostermeier GC, Travis AJ. Multicentric, prospective observational data show sperm capacitation predicts male fertility, and cohort comparison reveals a high prevalence of impaired capacitation in men questioning their fertility. Reprod Biomed Online. 2020 Jul; 41(1):69-79.

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Tiegs AW, Tao X, Landis J, Zhan Y, Franasiak JM, Seli E, Wells D, Fragouli E, Scott RT. Sperm Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number Is Not a Predictor of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) Cycle Outcomes. Reprod Sci. 2020 06; 27(6):1350-1356.

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Tiegs AW, Landis J, Garrido N, Scott RT, Hotaling JM. Total Motile Sperm Count Trend Over Time: Evaluation of Semen Analyses From 119,972 Men From Subfertile Couples. Urology. 2019 10; 132:109-116.

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Michaelson ZP, Bondalapati ST, Amrane S, Prosser RW, Hill DM, Gaur P, Recio M, Travassos DE, Wolfkamp MD, Sadowy S, Thomas C, Forman EJ, Williams Z. Early detection of cryostorage tank failure using a weight-based monitoring system. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2019 Apr; 36(4):655-660.

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Schinfeld J, Sharara F, Morris R, Palermo GD, Rosenwaks Z, Seaman E, Hirshberg S, Cook J, Cardona C, Ostermeier GC, Travis AJ. Cap-Score? prospectively predicts probability of pregnancy. Mol Reprod Dev. 2018 08; 85(8-9):654-664.

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Bathala P, Fereshteh Z, Li K, Al-Dossary AA, Galileo DS, Martin-DeLeon PA. Oviductal extracellular vesicles (oviductosomes, OVS) are conserved in humans: murine OVS play a pivotal role in sperm capacitation and fertility. Mol Hum Reprod. 2018 03 01; 24(3):143-157.

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Olli KE, Li K, Galileo DS, Martin-DeLeon PA. Plasma membrane calcium ATPase 4 (PMCA4) co-ordinates calcium and nitric oxide signaling in regulating murine sperm functional activity. J Cell Physiol. 2018 Jan; 233(1):11-22.

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Wu KZ, Li K, Galileo DS, Martin-DeLeon PA. Junctional adhesion molecule A: expression in the murine epididymal tract and accessory organs and acquisition by maturing sperm. Mol Hum Reprod. 2017 02 10; 23(2):132-140.

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Franasiak JM, Barnett R, Molinaro TA, Gabriele D, Gartmond TD, Treff NR, Scott RT. CYP1A1 3801T>C polymorphism implicated in altered xenobiotic metabolism is not associated with?variations in sperm production and function as measured by total motile sperm and fertilization rates with intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Fertil Steril. 2016 08; 106(2):481-6.

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Andrews RE, Galileo DS, Martin-DeLeon PA. Plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase 4: interaction with constitutive nitric oxide synthases in human sperm and prostasomes which carry Ca2+/CaM-dependent serine kinase. Mol Hum Reprod. 2015 Nov; 21(11):832-43.

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