Volume: 55 Issue: 2
Year: 2024, Page: 269-274, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2024.55.2.269-274
Received: Dec. 8, 2022 Accepted: March 12, 2024 Published: June 30, 2024
The study evaluated the effect of specific seminal plasma fractions on the in vitro fertility parameters of Large White Yorkshire (LWY) boar sperm. Semen collected as separate fractions from four adult LWY boars as F1 (first 10 mL of sperm rich fraction), F2 (rest of the sperm rich fraction), F3 post sperm rich fraction, was used to harvest seminal plasma. The effect of these fractions on sperm preservability at 15°C was studied using cauda epididymal sperm. The sperm incubated in the seminal plasma of F1 had better in vitro fertility parameters during the stages of preservation. Thus, it could be inferred that the sperm of the F1 fraction are more suitable to preservation than sperm of other fractions.
Keywords: Seminal plasma fractions, F1, SRF, cauda epididymal sperm
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Swathish, V.S., Hiron, M. H., Jayakumar, C., Unnikrishnan, M.P. and Usha, A.P.2022. Seminal plasma fractions of Large White Yorkshire boar semen differentially influence sperm preservability at 15°C. J. Vet. Anim. Sci. 55(2):269-274
DOI: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2024.55.2.269-274