High-speed quantitative 3D imaging by dual-illumination holographic microscopy

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (12) ◽  
pp. 1361-1365
Author(s):  
Dario Donnarumma ◽  
Nitin Rawat ◽  
Alexey Brodoline
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermes Gadêlha ◽  
Paul Hernández-Herrera ◽  
Fernando Montoya ◽  
Alberto Darszon ◽  
Gabriel Corkidi

The canonical beating of the human sperm flagellum is postulated to be symmetric. This is despite the reported asymmetries inherent to the flagellar axonemal structure, from distribution and activation of molecular motors to, even, the localisation of regulatory ion channels. This raises a fundamental question: how symmetric beating is possible within such intrinsically asymmetric flagellar complex? Here, we employ high-speed 3D imaging with mathematical analysis capable of resolving the flagellar movement in 4D (3D+time). This reveals that the human sperm beating is both anisotropic and asymmetric, and composed by a superposition of two transversal waves: an asymmetric travelling wave and a symmetric standing wave. This novel anisotropic travelling-pulsation mechanism induces sperm rolling self-organisation and causes a flagellar kinematic illusion, so that the beat appears to be symmetric if observed with 2D microscopy. The 3D beating anisotropy thus regularises the intrinsic flagellar asymmetry to achieve symmetric side-to-side movement and straight-line swimming.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-238
Author(s):  
王 会 WANG Hui ◽  
巨 欢 JU Huan ◽  
方 阳 FANG Yang ◽  
李荣旭 LI Rong-xu ◽  
王保平 WANG Bao-ping

1987 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.S. Acharya ◽  
P.B. Heffernan ◽  
R.A. Robb ◽  
H. Wechsler

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinji NAGANAWA ◽  
Hisashi KAWAI ◽  
Hiroshi FUKATSU ◽  
Takeo ISHIGAKI ◽  
Tomomi KOMADA ◽  
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