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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

A Narrative Review on the Sperm Selection Methods in Assisted Reproductive Technology: Out with the New, the Old Is Better?

Angeliki Tiptiri-Kourpeti, Byron Asimakopoulos, Nikolaos Nikolettos

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. [Screening of High-quality Spermatozoa Using Transwell Membrane Pores and Assessment of Their Performance].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Angeliki Tiptiri-KourpetiGenesis Athens-Thrace Medically Assisted Reproduction Unit, Apalos, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4710-7123
Byron AsimakopoulosLaboratory of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece.
Nikolaos NikolettosObstetric and Gynecologic Clinic, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

assisted reproductionDGCMACSmicrofluidicssperm sortingswim-up

Identifiers

PMID40004597
PMCPMC11856075

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