Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ’Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Shahīd Ṣadūqī Yazd (Oct 2005)

Predictability Power of Acrosome Reaction Test in Ivf Treatment Cycles

  • K Parivar,
  • A Aflatoonian,
  • M Kalantar,
  • M Dehghani - Ashkezari

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 4
pp. 76 – 81

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Introduction: It is well known that one of the powerful sperm function tests is the acrosome reaction (AR), which is a prerequisite in the fertilization process. The predictability of sperm fertilizing ability using AR has been suggested for IVF treatment cycles. The aim of study was to assess the power of AR using human follicular fluid (hFF) to predict the fertilization rate (FR) in IVF cycles. Materials &Methods: This investigation was experimental. During 9 month, 54 different semen samples were collected from infertile men exactly before insemination of retrieved oocytes. Each sample was divided into 4 aliquots and semen analysis (SA) was done on the first aliquot. For Acrosomal reaction, the sperm samples were washed with Ham'sf10 culture media and after 2 hours in 37C

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