The Sperm Cell
Production, Maturation, Fertilization, Regeneration
Published on 6. April 2006
Book
Hardback
372 pages
978-0-521-85397-2 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 2006, this is a comprehensive and definitive account of the human male gamete. The volume summarizes many unique and revealing characteristics of the sperm cell. It provides a detailed overview of human sperm production, maturation and function, and looks at how these processes affect and influence fertility, infertility and ART. The volume thus provides a detailed review of the most important research and developments, augmented with pertinent references. This book will appeal to all practitioners and scientists in reproductive medicine and in particular to clinical scientists, graduate and post-graduate scientists, and laboratory personnel.
Reviews / Votes
"The editors are to be congratulated on recruiting an outstanding list of contributors, many of whom are today's most active and productive investigators in their assigned topics.... I wish a book like this had been available to me when I was in graduate school."Amy E.T. Sparks, Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine "Overall, this book is an excellent overview of many aspects of sperm production and function. It will be very useful to researchers, andrologists and graduate students as well as those interested in gaining knowledge of what is known about spermatozoa."
Mark Sigman, American Journal of Human Biology
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
915 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-85397-2 (9780521853972)
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Christopher J. De Jonge | Christopher L. R. Barratt
The Sperm Cell
Production, Maturation, Fertilization, Regeneration
Book
05/2017
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
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Additional editions
Christopher J. De Jonge | Christopher Barratt
The Sperm Cell
Production, Maturation, Fertilization, Regeneration
E-Book
06/2006
1st Edition
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
Content
1. Anatomical and compartmental analysis Peter Sutovsky and Gaurishankar Manandhar; 2. Sperm chromatin stability and susceptibility to damage in relation to its structure Jeffrey A. Shaman and W. Steven Ward; 3. Genomic and proteomic approaches to defining sperm production and function Sarah Conner, Linda Lefievre and Christopher L. R. Barratt; 4. The epididymis and sperm maturation Trevor Cooper and C. H. Yeung; 5. Control of motility Claude Gagnon and Eve de Lamirande; 6. Regulation of capacitation Pablo Visconti and B. M. Gadella; 7. ROS's: friend or foe John Aitken and Liga Bennetts; 8. Testing sperm manufacturing quality: the sperm-zona binding assay Sergio Oehninger and Daniel Franken; 9. Genetics: a basic science perspective Peter Vogt; 10. Sex chromosome abnormalities and male infertility: a clinical perspective Shai Shefi and Paul J. Turek; 11. Epigenetic patterning in male germ cells: importance of DNA methylation to progeny outcome Jacquetta Trasler and Sophie La Salle; 12. The DAZ gene family and human germ cell development from embryonic stem cells Mark S. Fox, Renee A. Reijo Pera and Amander T. Clark; Index.