Erschienen in:
01.04.2020 | Commentary
How disparities in gamete maturity influence the nascent conceptus, and beyond
verfasst von:
David F. Albertini
Erschienen in:
Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
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Ausgabe 4/2020
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Excerpt
Selecting suitors for an oocyte in waiting used to be a situation reserved for those sperm capable of making their way through the female reproductive tract with fertilization armament poised. While evidence abounds in the animal literature for the ability of female gametes to attract their would be suitors via a variety of devices, ARTs as we practice today have all but given up letting Mother Nature take her course. In the surge for selection dictated by the expanded usage of ICSI, the embarrassment of riches presented by the normospermic patient in reality becomes a wishful expectation for homogeneity. …