title: Effects of peritoneal fluids from patients with endometriosis on capacitated spermatozoa.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the effects of peritoneal fluid (PF) from patients with endometriosis on capacitated sperm.
  
  
  METHODS
  Capacitated donor sperm were allowed to migrate into straws filled with pooled PF from patients with unexplained infertility without endometriosis (n = 4) and those with mild (n = 4) and moderate-severe (n = 4) endometriosis, respectively, for 3 hours.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sperm motility, sperm membrane integrity, and acrosomal loss were determined.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Statistically, no significant differences were found among the various sperm parameters determined.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Peritoneal fluid from patients with endometriosis does not appear to adversely affect capacitated spermatozoa.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bielfeld
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Graf
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Jeyendran
authors.forename: F D
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: De Leon
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Zaneveld
mesh_terms: D000177:Acrosome; D001202:Ascitic Fluid / Q000473:pathology*; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female; D008297:Male; D013075:Sperm Capacitation; D013076:Sperm Count; D013081:Sperm Motility