How to Select Healthy Sperm?
After the last #DrWuExplains post sharing five methods for sperm selection, many people asked how the BRCIVF laboratory selects healthy sperm.
#BRCIVFFertilityCenter embryologist Ci-Wen Hung has organized the following key points:
- 1.A normal sperm is divided into three parts: the head, neck, and tail.
- 2.The acrosome, located in the head, is an important structure that allows sperm to fertilize the egg.
- 3.In addition to sperm, semen also contains cell fragments, blood cells, and other components. These need to be cleaned before use.
- 4.The first step of sperm washing: gradient centrifugation.
Using sperm washing solutions of different densities, the semen is centrifuged. After centrifugation, a group of healthy sperm without cell fragments or blood cells can be collected at the bottom of the test tube. - 5.The second step: the swim-up method.
The healthy sperm collected after gradient centrifugation are mixed with culture medium, allowing the sperm with the best motility to swim upward to the surface, where they are then collected. - 6.These sperm are high-quality sperm with the best motility and can be used for in vitro fertilization or microinjection.
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