An electron microscope study of the axonemal ultrastructure in human spermatozoa from male smokers and nonsmokers

Fertility and Sterility
P M ZavosP N Zarmakoupis-Zavos

Abstract

To investigate possible abnormalities or deterioration of the sperm axonemal ultrastructure in men who have smoked a large quantity of cigarettes (> 20 per day) for a prolonged period. Semen specimens were collected by patients via masturbation; qualitative characteristics of the sperm were assessed and ultrastructural analysis of the sperm axoneme was performed using standard operating procedures for electron transmission microscopy. The Andrology Institute of Lexington, Lexington, Kentucky, and the Department of Histology and Embryology, University of Salonika, Greece (collaborative effort). Twenty-nine men (mean age +/- SD, 30.7 +/- 2.1 years) who smoked a mean (+/- SD) of 30.7 +/- 2.1 cigarettes per day for 10.7 +/- 0.7 years and 15 men who never smoked (mean age +/- SD, 30.4 +/- 2.2 years) participated in this study. Ultrastructural organization of the sperm axoneme in male smokers and nonsmokers. Changes in the number and the arrangement of axonemal microtubules were noted in the smoker group when compared to the nonsmoker group. The incidence of axonemal abnormalities was higher in spermatozoa from smokers compared with that in spermatozoa from nonsmokers. Smoking a large quantity of cigarettes per day, under the conditi...Continue Reading

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