Evaluation of human sperm function after repeated freezing and thawing.
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...While refrozen human spermatozoa have been assessed as to their ability to form pronuclei after injection into hamster oocytes [31], to our knowledge this is the first report evaluating the ability of refrozen spermatozoa to produce embryos by ICSI in any species....
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...The advent of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) has shown that a single human sperm can be microinjected into an oocyte, bring about fertilization and embryogenesis, and when transferred to the uterus, results in the birth of a baby (Palermo et al, 1992)....
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...It was recently shown that mouse sperm that become nonviable through repeated freezing and thawing can fertilize mouse oocytes, with subsequent embryonic development following ICSI (Ahmadi and Ng, 1999)....
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...Insertion of sperm into empty zonae was carried out either by conventional microinjection (Cohen et al, 1997) or with the use of a laser beam (Montag et al, 1999)....
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