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SUBMITTER: Reynolds S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5489489 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170628 1
Poor sperm motility is a common cause of male infertility for which there are no empirical therapies. Sperm motility is powered by adenosine triphosphate but the relative importance of lactate fermentation and Oxidative Phosphorylation (OxPhos) is debated. To study the relationship between energy metabolism and sperm motility we used dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (dDNP) for the first time to show the rapid conversion of <sup>13</sup>C<sub>1</sub>-pyruvate to lactate and bicarbonate, i ...[more]