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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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	2	0	2
1998	2	0	2
2000	0	1	1
2001	1	0	1
2003	0	2	2
2004	0	1	1
2006	0	1	1
2008	0	1	1
2009	0	2	2
2010	1	2	3
2011	0	1	1
2014	0	1	1
2015	0	2	2
2017	0	1	1
2023	0	1	1

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Virgous C, Lyons L, Sakwe A, Nayyar T, Goodwin S, Hildreth J, Osteen K, Bruner-Tran K, Alawode O, Bourne P, Hills ER, Archibong AE. Resumption of Spermatogenesis and Fertility Post Withdrawal of Hydroxyurea Treatment. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 May 27; 24(11).

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Uzhachenko R, Boyd K, Olivares-Villagomez D, Zhu Y, Goodwin JS, Rana T, Shanker A, Tan WJ, Bondar T, Medzhitov R, Ivanova AV. Mitochondrial protein Fus1/Tusc2 in premature aging and age-related pathologies: critical roles of calcium and energy homeostasis. Aging (Albany NY). 2017 03 26; 9(3):627-649.

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Ortega EA, Ruthig VA, Ward MA. Sry-Independent Overexpression of Sox9 Supports Spermatogenesis and Fertility in the Mouse. Biol Reprod. 2015 Dec; 93(6):141.

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Gray SL, Lackey BR, Boone WR. Impact of kudzu and puerarin on sperm function. Reprod Toxicol. 2015 Jun; 53:54-62.

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Farombi EO, Adedara IA, Forcados GE, Anao OO, Agbowo A, Patlolla AK. Responses of testis, epididymis, and sperm of pubertal rats exposed to functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Environ Toxicol. 2016 May; 31(5):543-51.

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Riel JM, Yamauchi Y, Huang TT, Grove J, Ward MA. Short-term storage of human spermatozoa in electrolyte-free medium without freezing maintains sperm chromatin integrity better than cryopreservation. Biol Reprod. 2011 Sep; 85(3):536-47.

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Garcia MM, Ohta AT, Walsh TJ, Vittinghof E, Lin G, Wu MC, Lue TF. A noninvasive, motility independent, sperm sorting method and technology to identify and retrieve individual viable nonmotile sperm for intracytoplasmic sperm injection. J Urol. 2010 Dec; 184(6):2466-72.

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Ohta AT, Garcia M, Valley JK, Banie L, Hsu HY, Jamshidi A, Neale SL, Lue T, Wu MC. Motile and non-motile sperm diagnostic manipulation using optoelectronic tweezers. Lab Chip. 2010 Dec 07; 10(23):3213-7.

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Cocquet J, Ellis PJ, Yamauchi Y, Riel JM, Karacs TP, Rattigan A, Ojarikre OA, Affara NA, Ward MA, Burgoyne PS. Deficiency in the multicopy Sycp3-like X-linked genes Slx and Slxl1 causes major defects in spermatid differentiation. Mol Biol Cell. 2010 Oct 15; 21(20):3497-505.

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Danshina PV, Geyer CB, Dai Q, Goulding EH, Willis WD, Kitto GB, McCarrey JR, Eddy EM, O'Brien DA. Phosphoglycerate kinase 2 (PGK2) is essential for sperm function and male fertility in mice. Biol Reprod. 2010 Jan; 82(1):136-45.

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