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Therapeutic insemination by donor I: A review of its efficacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

John K Critser
Affiliation:
Cryobiology Research Institute, Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana
Jeanne V Linden*
Affiliation:
Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA
*
Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, PO Box 509, Albany, NY 12201–0509, USA.

Extract

Of all the assisted reproductive technologies in current use, artificial insemination has by far the longest history. While the earliest verifiable reports using this technique date to the eighteenth century for nonhuman artificial insemination and to the nineteenth century for human artificial insemination, systematic use of this approach to assist reproduction did not occur until the early part of this century. During the early 1900s, in Russia, Ivanov developed methods for semen collection from and insemination of horses. These techniques were later modified to apply to other agriculturally important species so that by the 1930s, millions of horses, cattle and sheep were being bred using artificial insemination. The adaptation of widespread use of artificial insemination (primarily in cattle) in agriculture extended to Britain in the early 1940s and to the USA in the 1950s. Corresponding implementation of artificial insemination in human reproductive medicine closely followed these innovations in the animal husbandry field.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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