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Glycolysis is the major energy producing pathway in human spermatozoa while oxidative metabolism looks characteristically low (1). It is generally assumed that most of ATP generated is needed to drive sperm motility. However the relationship between glycolytic activity and velocity of spermatozoa is not perfectly clear, in normal as well as infertile semen.For the latter metabolic alterations have been already reported (2,3).
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Lornage, J., Guerin, J.F., Czyba, J.C. (1983). Glycolytic Activity of Human Spermatozoa From Normal and Infertile Semen. In: André, J. (eds) The Sperm Cell. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7675-7_11
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