Table 1 Effect of cryopreservation, ethanol and hydrogen peroxide incubation on human sperm cells motility.

From: High spatially sensitive quantitative phase imaging assisted with deep neural network for classification of human spermatozoa under stressed condition

Variable

Control

Mean ± SD

Ethanol, 2%

Mean ± SD

Cryopreservation

Mean ± SD

H2O2, 200 µM

Mean ± SD

P-value

Progressive motility (PR, %)

73.9 ± 19.5

18.7 ± 13.8

17.3 ± 11.9

2.4 ± 4.0

C/E 0.00009

C/H 0.00005

C/Cryo 0.0001

Non-progressive motility (NP, %)

14.6 ± 13.8

33.1 ± 11.9

27.1 ± 19.5

77.7 ± 16.2

C/E 0.01

C/H 0.0002

C/Cryo 0.2

  1. Analysis of the differences among group means using Paired Two Sample t-Test for Means (alpha 0,05). Values are shown as a mean ± standard deviation (SD). P-value for the analysis of the differences between the sample means of control and ethanol (C/E), control and H2O2 (C/H), control and cryopreserved groups (C/Cryo).