. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Feb 13.

Published in final edited form as: Biol Chem. 2009 Jan;390(1):67–73. doi: 10.1515/BC.2009.011

Table 2.

Motility analysis of wild type and Apoer2 mutant sperm

	WT	Apoer2[ex19]	Apoer2[Δex19]	Apoer2[Stop]	Apoer2[Dab]	Apoer2 KO
% Motile	69.0 ± 5.6	46.3 ± 10.3	30 ± 7.1	48.3 ± 7.5	32.7 ± 9.4	18.7 ± 7.3 ^*

Curvilinear velocity, μm/s	304.6 ± 4.0	283.1 ± 11.2	233.0 ± 2.7 ^*	242.6 ± 7.4 ^*	145.3 ± 7.1 ^*	160.4 ± 25.0 ^*
Average path velocity, μm/s	140.0 ± 0.4	142.1 ± 2.3	114.2 ± 3.6 ^*	116.4 ± 2.8 ^*	85.0 ± 6.2 ^*	80.1 ± 9.9 ^*
Straight line velocity, μm/s	103.2 ± 2.6	116.6 ± 1.6	87.1 ± 5.2	87.9 ± 5.0	66.9 ± 7.8	54.8 ± 7.5 ^*
Amplitude of lateral head displacement, μm	16.6 ± 0.2	14.0 ± 0.6	12.3 ± 0.2 ^*	12.8 ± 0.2 ^*	7.7 ± 0.4 ^*	9.2 ± 1.6
Beat cross frequency, Hz	24.7 ± 1.4	26.3 ± 1.1	28.2 ± 0.3	28.5 ± 0.7	30.2 ± 1.6	30.5 ± 1.3
Linearity, %	34.6 ± 0.6	42.6 ± 1.8	39.1 ± 1.8	37.1 ± 2.0	48.0 ± 4.9	37.5 ± 0.8

Spermatozoa, 150 from each of three animals per genotype, were analyzed for percent motility and various motility parameters, (mean ± S.E.)

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