1. MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM Conference on the VIBS 443/ VIBS 602

2. Tests of male function Blood hormone concentrations Vasogram Scrotal exploration to examine the epididymis Testicular biopsy Sperm analysis – Number – Shape – Motility – Binding/penetration

3. BLOOD - DIAGNOSTIC VALUE - MOST EXAMINED TYPES OF INFORMATION: IDENTIFY NATURE OF DISEASE VIRAL – T LYMPHOCYTES BACTERIAL – NEUTROPHILS PARASITIC – EOSINOPHILS FOLLOWS THE COURSE OF DISEASE ALLOWS METHOD TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT

4. Blood hormone concentrations

5. Sperm analysis

6. acrosome reacted intact Sperm analysis

9. EXTRAGENITAL COMPONENTS OF THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM EXCRETORY DUCTS COMPOSITION (RETE TESTIS, EFFERENT DUCTS, EPIDIDYMIS, DUCTUS DEFERENS, EJACULATORY DUCTS, URETHRA) Vasogram

10. ACCESSORY GLANDS – COMPOSITION AND SECRETION ACCESSORY GLANDSSECRETION SEMINAL VESICLESFRUCTOSE FIBRINOGEN PROSTATECITRATE FIBRINOLYSIN BULBOURETHRAL GLANDMUCUS-LIKE LUBRICANT GLANDS OF LITTREMUCUS

11. FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF THE ACCESSORY GLANDS SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF SEMINAL PLASMA AS MEASURED BY THE SPLIT EJACULATE METHOD FRACTION of EJACULATE CONTAINSSOURCE FIRST90% OF ALL CITRATEPROSTATE 90% OF ALL SPERMDUCTUS DEFERENS LAST90% OF ALL FRUCTOSESEMINAL VESICLES DEVELOPMENTAL RESPONSE TO ANDROGENS

12. CHARACTERISTICS OF FERTILE HUMAN EJACULATES >20 million SPERM/ml >80% SPERM WITH NORMAL MORPHOLOGY Sperm analysis

13. CHARACTERISTICS OF FERTILE HUMAN EJACULATES >60% PROGRESSIVELY MOTILE SPERM GOOD VISCOSITY (CLOT THEN DISPERSE) ABOUT 3 ml IN VOLUME Sperm analysis

16. During the hour of this lecture the average male produced 6.6 million spermatozoa