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. 2019 Oct 29;10:1344. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.01344

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Comparison of TLC lipid profiles of semen, seminal plasma and spermatozoa. Total lipids were extracted from whole semen (S) as well as from related spermatozoa (Sz) and seminal plasma (Sp) obtained from a man with normozoospermia and analyzed by TLC with the same solvent, as described in Methods. All species of lipids are stained by iodine vapor (A); sulfur-containing lipids are stained by azure A reagent (B). Lipid bands are indicated by their abbreviations: phosphatidylinositol (PI), lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC), sphingomyelin (SM), phosphatidylserine (PS), phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), cardiolipin (CL), cholesterol (Chol), cholesterol sulfate (Chol-S), and seminolipid (SGG).