Potential Clinical Applications
Sperm guidance by either chemotaxis or thermotaxis can potentially be used to obtain sperm populations that are enriched with capacitated spermatozoa for in vitro fertilization procedures. They can also be exploited as a diagnostic tool to assess sperm quality. In addition, these processes can potentially be used, in the long run, as a means of contraception by interfering with the normal process of fertilization (Eisenbach and Tur-Kaspa, 1999; Eisenbach and Giojalas, 2006).
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