Ashok Agarwal is the Director of the Clinical Andrology Laboratory and Reproductive Tissue Bank and the Director of Research at the American Center for Reproductive Medicine. He holds these positions at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he is a Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Ralf Henkel is the Chief Scientific Advisor for LogixX Pharma Ltd and Editor-in-Chief of Andrologia. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa and an Honorary Professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. Ahmad Majzoub is a Consultant in the Department of Urology and Program Director of the Andrology Fellowship at the Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Doha, Qatar.

'This is truly a compendium of human sperm function assays. The chapters include background information, some detailed protocols, interesting and insightful drawings, and photographs and insights from the authors/creators of the assays ... it should have a spot on the shelves of every biologist with an interest in human sperm function.' Karla Saner Amigh, Doody's Notes

• Introduction R. John Aitken; 1. Standard semen analysis: manual semen analysis Lars Björndahl; 2. Standard semen analysis: computer-assisted semen analysis Liana Maree; 3. Standard semen analysis: home sperm testing Manesh Panner Selvam Kumar, Christopher Douglas and Ashok Agarwal; 4. Standard semen analysis: leukocytospermia Renata Finelli and Ralf Henkel; 5. Standard semen analysis: morphology Roelof Menkveld; 6. Sperm vitality: eosin-nigrosin dye exclusion Rakesh Sharma and Ashok Agarwal; 7. Sperm vitality: hypo-osmotic swelling test Alexandre Rouen and Rajasingam S. Jeyendran; 8. Determination of mitochondrial membrane potential by flow cytometry in human sperm cells Nicolas Germain, Nathalie Jouy, Carole Marchetti and Philippe Marchetti; 9. Capacitation and acrosome reaction: fluorescence techniques to determine acrosome reaction Raúl S. Sánchez Gutiérrez, Fabiola Zambrano and Pamela Uribe; 10. Capacitation and acrosome reaction: histochemical techniques to determine acrosome reaction Brett Nixon, Shenae Café, Elizabeth Bromfield, Geoffry De Iuliis and Matthew Dun; 11. Zona binding: competitive sperm-binding assay De Yi Liu, Ying Zhong and Zi-Na Wen; 12. Zona binding: hemizona assay Shubhadeep Roychoudhury and Daniel Franken; 13. Oolemma binding: sperm penetration assay Anup Shah and Kathleen Hwang; 14. Oxidative stress testing: direct tests Renata Finelli, Manesh Kumar, Panner Selvam and Ashok Agarwal; 15. Oxidative stress testing: indirect tests Rakesh Sharma, Kathy Robert and Ashok Agarwal; 16. Chromatin condensation: aniline blue stain Jesse JP, Vidhu Dhawan and Rima Dada; 17. Chromatin condensation: chromomycin A3 (CMA3) stain Sara Marchiani, Lara Tamburrino, Francesca Benini, Sandra Pellegrini and Elisabetta Baldi; 18. Sperm chromatin structure: Toluidine Blue Staining Mohammed Nasr-Esfahani and Marziyeh Tavalaee; 19. DNA damage: TdT-mediated dUTP nick-end-labelling (TUNEL) assay Rakesh Sharma, Concetta Iovine and Ashok Agarwal; 20. DNA damage: sperm chromatin structure assay (SCSA) Don Evenson; 21. DNA damage: COMET assay Luke Simon, Benjamin R. Emery and Douglas T. Carrell; 22. DNA damage: halo sperm test Jaime Gosálvez and José Luís Fernández; 23. DNA damage: fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) Sezgin Güneş; 24. Clinical value of sperm function tests Ahmad Majzoub; 25. Future developments: sperm proteomics Manesh Panner Selvam Kumar, Saradha Baskaran and Ashok Agarwal; 26. Conclusion Ahmad Majzoub, Ralf Henkel and Ashok Agarwal.

Ashok Agarwal is the Director of the Clinical Andrology Laboratory and Reproductive Tissue Bank and the Director of Research at the American Center for Reproductive Medicine. He holds these positions at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he is a Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Ralf Henkel is the Chief Scientific Advisor for LogixX Pharma Ltd and Editor-in-Chief of Andrologia. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa and an Honorary Professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. Ahmad Majzoub is a Consultant in the Department of Urology and Program Director of the Andrology Fellowship at the Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Doha, Qatar.

'This is truly a compendium of human sperm function assays. The chapters include background information, some detailed protocols, interesting and insightful drawings, and photographs and insights from the authors/creators of the assays ... it should have a spot on the shelves of every biologist with an interest in human sperm function.' Karla Saner Amigh, Doody's Notes

• Introduction R. John Aitken; 1. Standard semen analysis: manual semen analysis Lars Björndahl; 2. Standard semen analysis: computer-assisted semen analysis Liana Maree; 3. Standard semen analysis: home sperm testing Manesh Panner Selvam Kumar, Christopher Douglas and Ashok Agarwal; 4. Standard semen analysis: leukocytospermia Renata Finelli and Ralf Henkel; 5. Standard semen analysis: morphology Roelof Menkveld; 6. Sperm vitality: eosin-nigrosin dye exclusion Rakesh Sharma and Ashok Agarwal; 7. Sperm vitality: hypo-osmotic swelling test Alexandre Rouen and Rajasingam S. Jeyendran; 8. Determination of mitochondrial membrane potential by flow cytometry in human sperm cells Nicolas Germain, Nathalie Jouy, Carole Marchetti and Philippe Marchetti; 9. Capacitation and acrosome reaction: fluorescence techniques to determine acrosome reaction Raúl S. Sánchez Gutiérrez, Fabiola Zambrano and Pamela Uribe; 10. Capacitation and acrosome reaction: histochemical techniques to determine acrosome reaction Brett Nixon, Shenae Café, Elizabeth Bromfield, Geoffry De Iuliis and Matthew Dun; 11. Zona binding: competitive sperm-binding assay De Yi Liu, Ying Zhong and Zi-Na Wen; 12. Zona binding: hemizona assay Shubhadeep Roychoudhury and Daniel Franken; 13. Oolemma binding: sperm penetration assay Anup Shah and Kathleen Hwang; 14. Oxidative stress testing: direct tests Renata Finelli, Manesh Kumar, Panner Selvam and Ashok Agarwal; 15. Oxidative stress testing: indirect tests Rakesh Sharma, Kathy Robert and Ashok Agarwal; 16. Chromatin condensation: aniline blue stain Jesse JP, Vidhu Dhawan and Rima Dada; 17. Chromatin condensation: chromomycin A3 (CMA3) stain Sara Marchiani, Lara Tamburrino, Francesca Benini, Sandra Pellegrini and Elisabetta Baldi; 18. Sperm chromatin structure: Toluidine Blue Staining Mohammed Nasr-Esfahani and Marziyeh Tavalaee; 19. DNA damage: TdT-mediated dUTP nick-end-labelling (TUNEL) assay Rakesh Sharma, Concetta Iovine and Ashok Agarwal; 20. DNA damage: sperm chromatin structure assay (SCSA) Don Evenson; 21. DNA damage: COMET assay Luke Simon, Benjamin R. Emery and Douglas T. Carrell; 22. DNA damage: halo sperm test Jaime Gosálvez and José Luís Fernández; 23. DNA damage: fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) Sezgin Güneş; 24. Clinical value of sperm function tests Ahmad Majzoub; 25. Future developments: sperm proteomics Manesh Panner Selvam Kumar, Saradha Baskaran and Ashok Agarwal; 26. Conclusion Ahmad Majzoub, Ralf Henkel and Ashok Agarwal.