Evidence supporting the existence of sperm maturation in the human epididymis
- 1 November 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Bioscientifica in Reproduction
- Vol. 60 (2) , 291-294
- https://doi.org/10.1530/jrf.0.0600291
Abstract
Zona-free hamster oocytes were used to evaluate the penetrating capacity of spermatozoa recovered from the caput, corpus and cauda segments of 5 human epididymides. Spermatozoa ability to bind tightly to oocytes increased in spermatozoa from successive segments. Only spermatozoa recovered from the cauda epididymidis were able to penetrate the oocytes (26%). Apparently in man, a gradual process of sperm maturation occurs in the epididymis, as has been observed in numerous other species of mammals.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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