BookKiyotaka Toshimori.
Summary: In humans, male infertility is caused by a number of factors such as the external environment, nutrient changes, genotoxins, and mutagens. This book discusses the events that occur in the normal sperm head and govern the structure-function relationship from the time of spermatogenesis to that of fertilization or egg activation.
Contents:
Mammalian sperm head
Sperm-head formation and factors affecting it
Post-testicular modifications and maturation events occurring in the sperm-head
Dynamics of the acrosome
Dynamics of the perinuclear theca
Dynamics of the sperm nucleus
Dynamics of the membrane system
Dynamics of egg (oocyte) activation
Status of sperm-head components during normal fertilization, IVF, ICSI, and round spermatid injection.