Abstract
A study was conducted to determine the optimum dosage of the exogenous cholesterol-loaded cyclodextrins (CLC) to get maximum cryoprotection for bubaline spermatozoa. In the present study, 120×106 spermatozoa were incubated in 2, 3 and 4mg of CLC as grouped as Gr II, III and IV, respectively, and sperm progressive motility, intracellular Ca2+ , capacitation status by protein tyrosine phosphorylation (PTP) assay and zona binding per cent (ZBP) and cleavage rate (CR) of the cryopreserved buffalo spermatozoa by in vitro fertility assay were assessed in comparison with an untreated control group (Gr I). Results revealed that there was a significant (p<.05) linear decrease in percentage of sperm population with higher intracellular Ca2+ and percentage of sperm population with medium or high capacitated by PTP in CLC treated from 2 to 3mg and then increased to 4mg/120×106 spermatozoa whereas sperm progressive motility, percentage of sperm population with low capacitated, ZBP and CR were increased significantly (p<.05) in sperm population treated from 2 to 3mg CLC and then decreased to 4mg/120×106 spermatozoa. The study has clearly indicated that CLC at 3mg/120×106 spermatozoa has maximum beneficial effects in protection of sperm progressive motility, membrane fluidity (low intracellular Ca2+ ); prevention of cryocapacitation (low capacitation pattern in immunolocalization) and enhancement of in vitro ZBP and CR. Post-thaw motility of the CLC-treated sperm has shown positively significant (p<.05) correlation with sperm population with low intracellular Ca2+ , low capacitated sperm population, ZBP and CR, whereas it was negatively (p<.05) correlated with sperm population with high intracellular Ca2+ , medium or high capacitated sperm. The present study has revealed for the first time that incubation of spermatozoa with CLC of higher dose (>3mg/120×106 spermatozoa) had adverse effects on sperm cryopreservation, although incubation of sperm with 3mg/120 million prior to processing had minimised the freezing-thawing-associated damages in bubaline species.
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