Sperm traits on in vitro production (IVP) of bovine embryos: Too much of anything is good for nothing.

ABSTRACT: Sperm samples used on fertilization strongly influence the in vitro production (IVP) rates. However, sperm traits behind this effect are not stated consistently until now. This study aimed to evaluate the isolated and combined effect of some sperm traits (MB: total motility before Percoll® gradient, MA: total motility after Percoll® gradient, AI: acrosome integrity, MI: membrane integrity, MP: mitochondrial membrane potential, and CR: chromatin resistance) on IVP rates. This is the first study focusing on the isolated effect of distinct traits. For this purpose, the experiment was divided in three steps. In first step, to study behavior of traits sperm samples (n = 63 batches) were analyzed and ranked based on each trait. In second step, samples ranked were selected from target ranks regio

SUBMITTER: Siqueira AFP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6039049 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature