Abstract

This work examines the effect of the interaction between different concentrations of two cryoprotectants - glycerol (GLY) and dimethylacetamide (DMA) - and two methods of cryopreservation - pellets produced by plunging into liquid nitrogen and gradual in-straw freezing - on frozen/thawed chicken sperm variables. Sperm was cryopreserved using: (i) 6% DMA, following the in-straw and the pellet methods (ii) 11% GLY, following the in-straw and the pellet methods; and (iii) 8% GLY in the in-straw method and 3% DMA in the pellet method (i.e. reduced cryoprotectant concentrations). When 6% DMA was used as the cryoprotectant, no differences were seen between the in-straw and pellet methods in terms of frozen/thawed sperm variables or fertility (10.8% and 12.8%, respectively). The viability and motility variables of the frozen/thawed sperm produced using the in-straw method with 11% GLY were higher (p<0.05) than those recorded for the sperm preserved using the same cryoprotectant and concentration in the pellet method. However, fertility was extremely low in both groups (2.1% and 4.2% for the in-straw and pellet methods, respectively). Finally, the use of 8% GLY in the in-straw method returned higher sperm viability, intact acrosome and motility values than the use of 3% DMA in the pellet method (p<0.01). No differences were seen, however, in the fertility results obtained (28.8% and 25.0%, respectively). These results suggest that cryoprotectant concentrations can be reduced and still provide acceptable fertility rates.

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