Overcome Male Infertility - What is Sperm Penetration Assay (Hamster Test)?

  

As mentioned in previous articles, infertility is defined as inability of a couple to conceive after 12 months of unprotected intercourse or can not carry the pregnancy to term. Has over 5 million couples in the United States and many times more in the world. Because of unawareness of treatments, only 10% seeks help from professional specialist. In this article, we will discuss this test is male infertility sperm penetration test (hamster) ??   I. DefinitionWith the hamster egg peel the outer layer, the test is to verify the ability of sperm to penetrate the egg infertile.   II. ProcedureThis test is performed in the clinical laboratory with sperm from sperm collected through masturbation. Hamster egg is removed from the outer layer and the sterile male sperm are placed in a tube.   III. DiagnosisAfter some time, the combination is checked in the tube1. If the penetration rate is over 10% everywhere, semen semen is considered to have an opportunity to penetrate the egg to human fertilization.   2. If the penetration rate is below 10%, the risk of penetration of the human egg is reduced and the rate of fertilizing the ovum of the female partner is greatly reduced. The test uses normal if the male partner has symptoms of low sperm count, a healthy man with unexplained causes of infertility.  IV. RiskAlthough the test is considered very accurate, but the inability to penetrate hamster egg does not imply that sperm can not penetrate human egg.