We attempted to select a fraction of common carp, Cyprinus carpio spermatozoa that best survived a conventional freeze/thaw procedure, by centrifugation of frozen/thawed sperm through a Percoll gradient (45% and 90%). The proportion of motile spermatozoa (65.81 ± 5.19%), their velocity (77.58 ± 31.07 μm/sec), and membrane integrity (83.66 ± 4.38% intact) were significantly higher in separated sperm than in whole samples (motility 23.36 ± 2.98%, velocity 55.55 ± 19.03 μm/sec, and membrane integrity 57.92 ± 4.65%). Our results demonstrated that Percoll gradient centrifugation shows promise as a technique for selecting high quality cryopreserved fish spermatozoa, which could be useful for cryobiological research. Further studies are needed to evaluate the potentially higher fertilizing ability of the separated spermatozoa.
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