Synonym(s)
Post-coital test; Short Rock Miller Test; Sims Chicken Test
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In vitro test to assess the progressive motility of sperm in human or bovine cervical mucus at the time of ovulation.
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Gynaecological-andrological indication for mainly immunological sterility factors. Antibody detection in women also by RAST.
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- Sims-Huhner test (post-coital test, sperm incompatibility test): Post-coital collection of female cervical mucus in which several spermatozoa move progressively in the presence of physiological findings,
- Kurzrock-Miller test (crossed mucus penetration test): Mixing of native ejaculate and cervical mucus of a sterile couple on the slide with each other and with ejaculate and mucus of a fertile couple, respectively, while assessing spermatozoid progressive motility in the mucus.
- Capillary-mucosal penetration test (Kremer test): incubation of small capillary tubes filled with ovulatory human cervical mucus in a native sperm reservoir on a graduated slide with assessment of migration distance in the mucus.
- Penetrak test: Industrially standardized variant of the Kremer test with biologically equivalent bovine cervical mucus; standard values are penetration distances of more than 30 mm in 90 minutes.
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- Alexander NJ (1981) Evaluation of male infertility with an in-viro cervical mucus penetration test. Fertility and Sterility 37: 823-827
- Chicken M (1914) The value of the spermatozoa test in sterility. Urol Cutan Rev (St. Louis) 18: 587-597
- Ola B et al (2003) Accuracy of sperm-cervical mucus penetration tests in evaluating sperm motility in semen: a systematic quantitative review. Hum Reprod 18: 1037-1046
- Sims HM (1888) Sterility and the value of microscope in its diagnosis and treatment. Transact Am Gynecol Soc (Boston) 13: 291
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer