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Table 3.

Experimental and computational values for linearity of sperm trajectories (LIN, %). Linearity is defined as the ratio of the straight line velocity and curvilinear velocity multiplied by 100. S₁ is the nondimensional tensile stiffness parameter.

Value
65.9	fresh (activated, mouse) [72]
37.6	HA (mouse) [72]
54 ± 12	forward progressive (human) [90]
30 ± 10	transition (human) [76, 90, 91]
11 ± 7	HA (human) [5, 77, 90–92]
31.39	Constant S₁ and CatSper/Constant Ca²⁺
44.13	Linear taper of S₁ and CatSper Ca²⁺
15.5	4^th order taper of S₁ and CatSper Ca²⁺