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ArticleFrontiers in reproductive health2022

The relevance of sperm morphology in male infertility.

Elena Moretti, Cinzia Signorini, Daria Noto, Roberta Corsaro, Giulia Collodel

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Article in Frontiers in reproductive health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elena MorettiDepartment of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
Cinzia SignoriniDepartment of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
Daria NotoDepartment of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
Roberta CorsaroDepartment of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
Giulia CollodelDepartment of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
University of Siena · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This brief report concerns the role of human sperm morphology assessment in different fields of male infertility: basic research, genetics, assisted reproduction technologies, oxidative stress. One of the best methods in studying sperm morphology is transmission electron microscopy (TEM) that enables defining the concept of sperm pathology and classifying alterations in non-systematic and systematic. Non-systematic sperm defects affect head and tail in variable ratio, whereas the rare systematic defects are characterized by a particular anomaly that marks most sperm of an ejaculate. TEM analysis and fluorescence

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assisted reproduction technologies (ART)geneticshuman spermoxidative stresssperm morphologysystematic sperm defectstransmission electron microscopy

Identifiers

PMID36303645
PMCPMC9580829
OpenAlexW4289516711

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