Epididymal protein markers and fertility
Résumé
The last stages of male gamete differentiation occur outside the gonad in a specific surrounding environment controlled by the epididymal epithelium. All the fundamental characteristics of a fertile spermatozoon are acquired sequentially during transit through the epididymal tubule. Full understanding of about the mechanisms involved in these gamete modifications is a key to understanding and controlling such important stages in male fertility. With the development of new large scale technologies, large amounts of information give hope to identifying the fundamental elements involved in such cellular events and to being able to obtain some predictive markers of male fertility that would be valuable both in human and/or animal reproduction.