Publications by authors named "Maria Angeles Diaz-Jimenez"
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- The study compared different methods of processing frozen/thawed equine semen to assess the recovery of motile sperm subpopulations after centrifugation.
- It utilized various treatments: uncentrifuged control (UDC), sperm washing (SW), and two colloid centrifugation methods, analyzing total and progressive motility as well as kinematic characteristics of the sperm.
- Results showed that while colloid centrifugation yielded higher motility percentages overall, sperm washing was equally effective in recovering the most vigorous and progressive sperm subpopulation (sP4), suggesting a practical equivalence in effectiveness between the two methods.
DNA fragmentation of cumulus cells could be used as an indicator of oocyte vitrification success as an indirect indicator of the quality of the oocyte. This study was designed to compare the DNA fragmentation of post-mortem equine cumulus cells before or after vitrification in the absence of permeable cryoprotectant agents. Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs; n = 56) were recovered from slaughterhouse ovaries and subjected to in vitro maturation (42 hr/38.
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