title: Non-fertilizing spermatozoa: initiators of gestational physiology.
abstract: It is suggested that spermatozoa may have reproductive functions in the human female beyond participation in the process of fertilization, that there may be sperm-related infertilities associated with these "other" functions of spermatozoa and that if they exist the "other"-function centered infertilities ought to be susceptible to treatment.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D005306:Fertilization; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000502:physiology*; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000502:physiology*