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Human Reproduction Update 2006 12(1):1-2; doi:10.1093/humupd/dmi051
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. for Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org

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Man-made versus female-made environment—will the real capacitation please stand up?

Christopher L.R. Barratt1 and Jackson Kirkman-Brown

Reproductive Biology & Genetics Group, Division of Reproductive and Child Health, The University of Birmingham and The Assisted Conception Unit, Birmingham Women’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed E-mail: c.l.barratt{at}bham.ac.uk

Abstract

Two recent reviews discuss the importance of the female tract in regulating the function of the spermatozoon during its eventful journey to the site of fertilization in this journal. However, our understanding of the nature of this journey, specifically in the human, is remarkably poor. What is also clear is the discourse between what is likely happening in vivo and the design of our experiments in vitro. Our conclusion is that, to date, we have been studying the spermatozoa in the wrong environment, in the wrong way and at the wrong time.


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