Although their role in fertility is well known, data supporting suggestions that the seminal vesicles might be involved in sexual activity and sex drive have so far proved elusive. Now a study ...

Changes in EAE-associated gene expression were estimated during the peak of the disease (day 14 after EAE immunization). Because EAE is a T cell-mediated disease, we investigated the changes in IFN-γ, ...

Father's seed The health of a male's seminal fluid can affect his fertility and how fat his adult offspring grows, a new study in mice has found. If the same thing applies in humans, the study could ...

THERE’S more to semen than sperm. In many animals, seminal fluid alters both the bodies and sometimes even the behaviour of females. Human semen, too, triggers changes in the uterus, and might have ...

For male fruit flies, sperm is not enough in the battle to reproduce – at each mating a cocktail of proteins is transferred to the female, many of which directly influence female behaviours in ways ...

The presence of oxytocin (OXT) in seminal plasma is related to the fertility outcomes of male pigs used in artificial insemination (AI) programs. However, OXT rapidly volatilizes when circulating ...

Most of us remember that awkward class in school. It all starts with “when a man and a woman decide to make a baby…” and ends with some variation on birth control methods. Somewhere along the line, ...

Semen is a fluid that is composed of sperm as well as fluids from the prostate and other glands. The resulting seminal fluid or ejaculate passes through several ducts on its way to the urethra. First, ...

A man’s seminal fluid, not just his sperm, plays a critical role in the conception, development and future health of a child. Researchers have studied the complex interaction between male seminal ...

The medicolegal identification of seminal stains in cases of rape is a difficult and frequently unsuccessful process, for it has been customary to base this identification solely on the presence of ...