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TETRACYCLINES are distributed to various body tissues1, which includes human prostatic fluid2,3 and semen3. Oxytetracycline has been used as a fluorescent stain for condensed spermatid nuclei of the rat4. Tetracycline HCl is a known fluorophor, and so we designed in vitro and in vivo experiments to determine, by fluorescent microscopy, whether this antibiotic binds to spermatozoa.
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ERICSSON, R., BAKER, V. Binding of Tetracycline to Mammalian Spermatozoa. Nature 214, 403–404 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214403a0
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