Abstract
This study explored the optimization of techniques for sperm cryopreservation of an economically important fish species, the striped bass Morone saxatilis. The volumetric shrinkage or the water transport response during freezing of sperm cells was obtained using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) technique. Water transport was obtained in the presence of extracellular ice at a cooling rate of 20°C/min in two different media: (1) without cryoprotective agents (CPAs), and (2) with 5% (v/v) dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). The sperm cell was modeled as a cylinder of length of 22.8μm and diameter 0.288μm and was assumed to have an osmotically inactive cell volume (Vb) of 0.6V0, where V0 is the isotonic or initial cell volume. By fitting a model of water transport to the experimentally determined water transport data, the best fit membrane permeability parameters (reference membrane permeability to water, Lpg or Lpg[cpa] and the activation energy, ELp or ELp[cpa]) were determined and ranged from Lpg=0.011–0.001μm/min-atm, and ELp=40.2–9.2kcal/mol). The parameters obtained in this study suggested that the optimal rate of cooling for striped bass sperm cells in the presence and absence of DMSO range from 14 to 20°C/min. These theoretically predicted rates of optimally freezing M. saxatilis sperm compared quite closely with independent and experimentally determined optimal rates of cooling striped bass sperm.
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