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Bull Fertility Protein

Last Updated: February 11, 2008 Related resource areas: Beef Cattle



Detection of a protein from the sperm of infertile bulls may help create an objective test for human male infertility, a University of Missouri scientist says.

The protein, ubiquitin, appears to be a marker of sperm abnormalities. If this is so, we should have a truly objective test for male infertility.

Ubiquitin is found inside all mammalian cells, and has been found on the surface of defective sperm cells from bulls and stallions as well as men. On the surface, it appears to indicate structural abnormalities and contamination with immature sperm-precursor cells.


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