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- Purebred Spanish stallions generally have low compliance with international standards for sperm cryopreservation, making artificial insemination with their frozen semen less common compared to other breeds.
- This study evaluated the effectiveness of using single-layer colloidal centrifugation to improve the suitability of stallion ejaculates for cryopreservation, resulting in an increase from 35% to 71% of samples being able to be frozen.
- The findings indicate that colloidal centrifugation not only doubled the number of viable sperm samples but also produced thawed sperm quality comparable to higher-quality fresh ejaculates, enhancing cryopreservation efficiency overall.
Article Abstract
The Purebred Spanish Horse, according to our clinical experience, is characterized by having a high number of stallions that do not meet the international commercial recommendations for equine-sperm cryopreservation. This means that artificial insemination with frozen semen from these stallions is less widespread than in other breeds. In this study, we investigated if the incorporation of single-layer colloidal centrifugation prior to cryopreservation in clinical conditions could increase the number of ejaculates of Purebred Spanish stallions suitable for this processing, observing the influence of centrifugation and freezing extender protocol on post-thawed sperm motility. Using colloidal centrifugation, the percentage of ejaculates available to be frozen was increased from 35% (6/17) to 71% (12/17), doubling the number of samples that could have been subjected to cryopreservation. We only found significant differences in linearity (LIN) and lateral head displacement (ALH) after 5 min of incubation at 37 °C between colloidal and simple centrifugation processing techniques. No significant differences were found between the two different colloidal protocols in any of the variables considered. Colloidal centrifugation allowed us to obtain, from worse fresh-quality ejaculates, thawed sperm doses with similar quality to that of good-quality ejaculates. BotuCrio produced, in general, higher motility parameters and its characteristics than the other extenders analyzed, with significant differences found in comparison to Inra-Freeze and Lac-Edta in both total (MOT) and progressive motility (PMOT) when using colloidal centrifugation and only in PMOT when applying simple centrifugation. Colloidal centrifugation optimized the efficiency of cryopreservation, as it allowed us to increase the number of ejaculates of Purebred Spanish Horses suitable to be frozen. Including these semen processing techniques in the freeze test could help to optimize equine-sperm cryopreservation protocols, especially when dealing with individuals or breeds for which initially low sperm quality prevents or limits their inclusion in sperm cryopreservation programs.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9913238 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13030382 | DOI Listing |
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