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Exhaustion of racing sperm in nature-mimicking microfluidic channels during sorting
Fecha
2013-10-25Registro en:
Tasoglu, Savas; Safaee, Hooman; Zhang, Xiaohui; Kingsley, James L.; Catalano, Paolo Nicolás; et al.; Exhaustion of racing sperm in nature-mimicking microfluidic channels during sorting; Wiley; Small; 9; 20; 25-10-2013; 3374-3384
1613-6810
Autor
Tasoglu, Savas
Safaee, Hooman
Zhang, Xiaohui
Kingsley, James L.
Catalano, Paolo Nicolás
Gurkan, Umut Atakan
Nureddin, Aida
Kayaalp, Emre
Anchan, Raymond M.
Maas, Richard L.
Tüzel, Erkan
Demirci, Utkan
Resumen
Fertilization is central to the survival and propagation of a species, however, the precise mechanisms that regulate the sperm's journey to the egg are not well understood. In nature, the sperm has to swim through the cervical mucus, akin to a microfluidic channel. Inspired by this, a simple, cost-effective microfluidic channel is designed on the same scale. The experimental results are supported by a computational model incorporating the exhaustion time of sperm.