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New Compound May Aid Fertility In Smokers

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Monday, March 19, 2018 | 0 comments

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A reproductive medicine specialist at the University at Buffalo has shown a new compound may improve the fertility of tobacco smokers who have low sperm count and low percentage sperm motility.

The sperm from male smokers were washed with a synthetic chemical called AM-1346.

After incubation, there was a doubling in the fertilizing capacity of sperm from poor quality semen, results showed.

It does appear that sperm functioning in tobacco smokers with low fertility and low semen quality is quite different when compared to smokers with higher fertility and good semen quality.

Nicotine appears to change the sperm membranes and sperm receptors.

It also raises the question of why sperm from some smokers are protected from the effects of tobacco and nicotine.

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