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A Model for Estimating the Potency and Survival of Human Gametes in Vivo
1 Jun 1995
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Sperm and ova are sensitive to numerous toxicants in animal studies; however, human vulnerability has been far more difficult to assess, due in part to a lack of methods for measuring the viable survival of human gametes in vivo. We present a parametric model for fertility, which assumes that the viable lifetime of the ovum is fixed while that of sperm is exponentially distributed. By reducing the number of...
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