Dear Editor: Anti-sperm antibodies (ASAs) are composed of numerous antibodies interacting with multiple sperm antigens that play a role in fertility. In males, ASAs cause ‘immune infertility’ by decreasing sperm counts and normal forms, as well as reducing sperm motility and viability, markedly reducing the likelihood of natural conception [1] . The development of ASA in the male depends on the...

Microsurgical repair of obstructive male infertility is a challenge for the physician, but successful treatment depends on the experience and skills of the surgeon. Fertility can often be restored, thus avoiding the need for artificial reproductive techniques. The surgical procedures can be combined with sperm aspiration and cryopreservation, to be used for intracytoplasmic sperm injection in c...

© Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Transl Androl Urol, 2016;5(S1) tau.amegroups.com 50%. With the recent advances in assisted fertilization such as in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), the couples suffer from infertility would like to choose assisted fertilization and nearly 1 million cycles ICSI were carried out in China every year, eve...

Chronic alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking adversely affect male reproductive health. This work highlights the influence of both on the sperm quality of infertile male partners. This prospective study was conducted on semen samples of alcoholics(Group1), smokers-(Group2), habit of both-(Group-3), controls-(Group4). Samples were analysed following WHO guidelines including the percentage o...

522 Meehl: Law and the Fireside Inductions THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FIRESIDE Lawmen will immediately see the point of my title, but for social science readers I should explain. The phrase “fireside equities” is legalese for what the legal layman feels intuitively or commonsensically would be a fair or just result (Llewellyn, 1960). Sometimes the law accords with the fireside equities, sometimes no...

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 199, “The Paleogene Equatorial Transect” (Sites 1215 through 1222), was designed to study the evolution of the equatorial Pacific current and wind system as the Earth went from maximum Cenozoic warmth to initial Antarctic glaciations. The drilling program was primarily devoted to a transect along 56to 57-Ma crust, old enough to capture the Paleocene/ Eocene boun...