Enhancement of sperm motility by treatment with streptokinase-streptodornase (Varidase)

Determination of tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) antigen in seminal plasma by modified enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA)

The determination of tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) antigen in semen by a new immunoenzymatic method was done in 152 men without genito urinary pathology. The seminal value is one hundred higher than the blood value with a log normal distribution. These levels are not influenced by freezing temperature, by the sequences freezing-thawing, by centrifugation. From split ejaculates a correlation has been established between t-PA antigen and zinc and not with fructose. These results indicate the major prostatic origin of the t-PA antigen.

Two plasminogen activators, streptokinase and urokinase, stimulate human sperm motility

The stimulatory effects of two plasminogen activators, namely streptokinase and urokinase, were measured with a trans-membrane migration method. Both drugs induced maximal motility increase at a concentration of 200 international unit/ml; the amplitude of maximal motility increase ranged from 17% to 19% of control. Although their stimulatory effects were much less than those of calcium regulating agents, the clinical application of these two drugs for improving the successful rate of artificial insemination deserves further investigation because the action site is seminal plasma rather than sperm.