Aspects of human sperm motility: Observation and theory
Presenter
June 4, 2010
Keywords:
- Imaging, bio
MSC:
- 92C55
Abstract
Studying human spermotozoa motility is a subject of growing
importance due to human male subfertility and the fact that the
in-vitro fertilisation interventions that bypass normal sperm
motility are invasive and entail significant risk for the
healthy female partner, as well as being economically
prohibitive for many. We present examples of how fluid and
continuum dynamics can provide novel insights concerning the
mechanics of human spermatozoon behaviour, focussing on the
interpretation of recent high resolution imaging.