A Practical Guide to Basic Laboratory Andrology

David Mortimer is President of Oozoa Biomedical Inc, Vancouver, Canada, and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University Dundee, Soctland, UK. Lars Bjӧrndahl is Head of the Andrology Laboratory, at the ANOVA Centre for Andrology, Sexual Medicine and Trans Gender Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Christopher L. R. Barratt is Head of Division for Post Graduate Medicine and Professor of Reproductive Medicine, University of Dundee, Scotland. José Antonio Castilla is Medical Director, CEIFER Biobanco – NextClinics; head of the Andrology and embryology Laboratory, Hospital Universitario Virgen de Las Nieves and Leader of the Research Group in Reproduction, Instituto de investigación biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain. Roelof Menkveld is Professor Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Ulrik Kvist is senior researcher at the ANOVA Centre for Andrology, Sexual Medicine and Trans Gender Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Juan G. Alvarez is Medical and Scientific Director of The Center of Male Infertility ANDROGEN in La Coruña, Spain; Medical and Scientific Director of the Sperm Bank BIOKIBANK in Vitoria, Alava, Spain; and Scientific Director of the IVF Center, Estudio Medico Navarro in Pamplona, Spain. Trine B. Haugen is Professor and Leader of the Research Group Male Reproductive Health at Department of Life Sciences and Health, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.

• List of abbreviations:1. Introduction; 2. Basic physiology; 3. Basic semen examination; 4. Extended semen analysis; 5. Sperm DNA; 6. Computer-aided sperm analysis; 7. Sperm function tests; 8. Tests of sperm-cervical mucus interaction; 9. Sperm preparation; 10. Sperm cryopreservation; 11. Preparation of surgically retrieved spermatozoa; 12. Quality management and accreditation; 13. Risk management; 14. Reproductive toxicology; 15. Andrology laboratory safety; Appendices: 16. Interpreting andrology laboratory results#; 17. Equipment required for a basic andrology laboratory; 18. Home testing; 19. Example andrology laboratory forms; 19. Comparison of replicate counts; Index.