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The use of frozen sperm for artificial insemination in man has increased substantially in the last few decades as a result of better techniques for recovery and preservation of motile sperm. As of today, thousands of successful inseminations have been accomplished, and the clinical use of frozen-stored human semen has proven to be safe and quite effective. In clinical practice, stored frozen sperm represents a clear advantage over fresh specimens because of the readily available samples with wide phenotypic characteristics. However, one of the problems that remains to be solved is that of freezing and thawing. Even with the best results reported so far (Behrman and Ackerman, 1969; Sawada and Ackerman, 1968; Schill, 1975a; Smith and Steinberger, 1973; Steinberger and Smith, 1973), a decline in the percentage of recovered viable spermatozoa is inevitable.
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Chong, A.P., Cappiello, W., Weinrieb, S. (1982). Effect of Kinins (Kallikrein) on Recovery of Motility in Frozen Spermatozoa. In: Hafez, E.S.E., Semm, K. (eds) Instrumental Insemination. Clinics in Andrology, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7467-8_10
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