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Abstract

Preselection of sex before conception has been one of the objectives pursued by scientists and breeders for many years. Within dairy and meat cattle industries there are productive reasons to calculate the financial benefit of preferring one sex. However, equines are subject to other variables i.e Polo horses where the industry prefers 100% mares (as in dairy cattle). The only replicable and efficient way up to now in separating the sperms that contain the X chromosome from those that contain the Y chromosome from a semen sample is through the use of cell sorting technique by high flow cytometer developed by Johnson in 1986 (Samper et. al, 2012). However, it has only been used commercially and at big scale in dairy cattle industry. The number of spermatozoa that can be effectively selected per hour in the flow cytometer has been a limitation for its mass application, especially for species that require a high number of sperms to inseminate a female, as it is the equine scenario (Panarace et. al, 2014). And also to consideration the level of damage that spermatozoa suffers during the process and the inability to get an appropriate frozen dose after sex sorting. The aim of this study was to test a new method of sex sorting spermatozoa that was also field friendly for using, none or less damage for spermatozoa and faster than cytometer. The use of magnetic beads in the nano scale could accomplish these features. The results showed that sperm parameters where mainly not affected comparing to control groups (not exposed to nano particles) and fertility tests went well on our first small scale inseminating mares.

Details

Title
Magnetic nanoparticles for x sperm separation from equine semen. Field and commercial results
Author
Castex, Hernán Ramírez, MV, MSc 1 ; Losinno, Luis, MV, PhD 2 

 Bioteq, Centro de Medicina Reproductiva Equina, Chile 
 Laboratorio de Producción Equina, Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Argentina 
Pages
268-275
Publication year
2018
Publication date
May-Aug 2018
Publisher
Universidad CES
ISSN
19009607
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
2139454173
Copyright
© 2018. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.