Atherton, Shaun, Evans, Carl, Roach, Paul, Hughes, David, McHale, Glen and Newton, Michael (2009) Investigation of operating parameters for a semen quality analysis system. In: BIODEVICES 2009 - proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics & Devices. INSTICC Press, Portugal, pp. 13-16. ISBN 978-9898111647
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To increase the success rate of Artificial Insemination (AI) in animals, it is important that the semen sample is of a high quality. The quality is related to both the number and motility of sperm present. Numerous methods of analysing semen samples exist, but these are generally expensive and/or laboratory based. A useful alternative would be an inexpensive simple system that could be used in the field immediately prior to insemination. We present a time of flight (ToF) technique using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). In this system the sperm are introduced at one end of a liquid filled swim channel and self propel to a QCM sensor at the other end. A chemical coating is applied to the QCM to bind the sperm and from the frequency change the number of attached sperm and their ToF can be measured. We report the effect of temperature and the introduction of small quantities of progesterone into the swim channel on the sperm ToF, Results show the QCM can be used to detect the arrival of the sperm and that increasing temperature and the presence of progesterone are both shown to decrease the ToF.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Proceeding of the BIODEVICES 2009 International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices held from 14 - 19 January 2009 in Portugal. |
| Subjects: | H900 Others in Engineering |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering |
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| Depositing User: | Ay Okpokam |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2012 08:43 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2019 19:06 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/5455 |
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