Table 1.
The number of spermatozoa exhibiting each of the five head halo patterns and categorized as each of the seven types after the HOST
| HOST type | Head halo pattern |
Spermatozoa without DF (%)a) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large halo | Medium halo | Small halo | No halo | Degraded | Total | Large halo+medium halo | ||
| a | 30,316 | 3,380 | 505 | 154 | 49 | 34,404 | 33,696 | 97.94 |
| b | 884 | 242 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1,153 | 1,126 | 97.66 |
| c | 288 | 119 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 418 | 407 | 97.37 |
| d | 60 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 84 | 100.00 |
| e | 130 | 78 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 216 | 208 | 96.3 |
| f | 1,439 | 489 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 1,964 | 1,928 | 98.17 |
| g | 2,685 | 1,026 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 3,761 | 3,711 | 98.67 |
| Total | 35,802 | 5,358 | 627 | 163 | 50 | 42,000 | 41,160 | 98.00 |
The data above were pooled from 21 men.
HOST, hypo-osmotic swelling test; DF, DNA fragmentation.
a)
The pooled percentages of spermatozoa without DF by type after the HOST are listed in the last column.