Discribe the process when the sperms travel from urethra till fertilization in about 80 words.
ALSO MENTION HOW it travels from male to female
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Sperm then travels through the deferent duct through up the spermatic cord into the pelvic cavity, over the ureter to the prostate behind the bladder. Here, the vas deferens joins with the seminal vesicle to form the ejaculatory duct, which passes through the prostate and empties into the urethra.
Sperm are made in the testes and mature in a coiled tube, the epididymis. At the end of sexual intercourse, they travel along the vas deferens and mix with fluids made by the prostate gland and seminal vesicle. The sperm then pass along the urethra to the tip of the penis and into the female vagina.
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The key male reproductive organs include the testes, epididymis, urethra, vas deferens, prostate gland, seminal vesicle, and penis.
The testes are composed of coiled structures called seminiferous tubules, which are the sites of sperm production. The structure on top of the seminiferous tubules in the testes is the epididymis. The sperm migrate from of the seminiferous tubules to the epididymis. Within the epididymis, the sperm mature while they are stored in this structure.
The ejaculation process begins as the penis fills with blood and becomes erect. With sufficient stimulation, mature sperm travel from the epididymis through the vas deferens, a muscular tube, which propels sperm forward through smooth muscle contractions. The sperm arrive first at the ampulla, where secretions from the seminal vesicle are added.
From the ampulla, seminal fluid is propelled forward through the ejaculatory ducts toward the urethra, passing first by the prostate gland, where a milky fluid is added to form semen. Finally, the semen is ejaculated through the far end of the urethra.
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Sperm Transport Through the Uterus
Little is known about sperm transport within the endometrial cavity. Sperm motility does not appear to be the only force directing the sperm toward the oviducts, because inert particles deposited within the uterus are transported to the Fallopian tubes.44 Uterine muscular contractions likely play a role in this process. Unfortunately, much difficulty has been met in attempts to recover and quantify uterine sperm.45 Moyer and colleagues examined sperm recovered at the time of ovulation from the uterus of women undergoing hysterectomies 25 to 41 hours after intercourse.45A Sperm was recovered in only 6 of 26 women, and for these women the total number of sperm ranged from 1 to 4. None of the sperm were motile.
A study by Kunz and coworkers used vaginal sonography to demonstrate that uterine peristalsis during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle exhibits an increasing frequency and intensity of subendometrial and myometrial peristaltic waves as the follicular phase progresses.46 During this portion of the cycle, the number of contractions propagating in the fundocervical direction decreased, and number of contractions progressing in the cervicofundal direction increased.46 In another part of this same study, the investigators placed technetium-labeled albumin macrospheres, about the size of spermatozoa, into the posterior vaginal fornix. The ascension of these particles was monitored by serial scintigrams. As soon as 1 minute after placement, the macrospheres reached the intramural and isthmic portion of the oviduct. Quantitatively, the number of macrospheres progressed dramatically as the follicular phase progressed, with only a few particles entering the uterine cavity during the early follicular phase of the menstrual cycle. By the midfollicular phase, the proportion of macrospheres entering the uterine cavity increased dramatically, and by the late follicular phase, the highest level of macrosphere transported to the oviducts was noted. Perhaps the most striking finding of this particular study was the preferential transport of these inert particles to the oviduct ipsilateral to the side of the dominant follicle. Other investigators have shown that near the time of ovulation, the number of spermatozoa is higher in the oviduct ipsilateral to the dominant follicle than in the contralateral oviduct on the side of the nondominant follicle.47 Several responsible forces have been proposed, including chemotaxis of the sperm toward the dominant follicle. The results of the above study, however, seem to suggest that lateralizing muscular contractile forces may play a significant role in this preferential movement, in that inert particles are obviously unable to engage in chemotactic migration.