2024-03-28T22:13:37Zhttp://buleria.unileon.es/oai/requestoai:buleria.unileon.es:10612/105292020-12-10T08:56:34Zcom_10612_17col_10612_18
Washing increases the susceptibility to exogenous oxidative stress in red deer spermatozoa
Domínguez Rebolledo, Álvaro Efrén
Fernández Santos, María Rocío
García Álvarez, Olga
Maroto Morales, Alejandro
Garde López-Brea, Julián
Martínez Pastor, Felipe
Biologia Celular
Veterinaria
P. 1073-1084
The effects of routine sperm work are often overlooked. We assessed the effect of washing cryopreserved epididymal spermatozoa from red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus, Helzheimer 1909). After thawing, epididymal samples (four stags) were diluted in TALP-HEPES. A split was left untouched, another was centrifuged (300 × g, 5 min) and resuspended, and a third was centrifuged and the supernatant substituted by fresh TALP-HEPES (washing). Each split was supplemented either with nothing, 1 mM of the antioxidant Trolox, 100 μM of the oxidant Fe (with ascorbate), or both. The 3 × 4 treatments were incubated at 37°C and assessed each hour up to 3 h for motility (computer-aided sperm assessment) and viability/apoptosis plus mitochondrial status (YO-PRO-1, propidium iodide, Mitotracker Deep Red; flow cytometry). DNA damage at 4 h was assessed using the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase–mediated dUTP nick end-labeling assay. Centrifugation alone affected neither sperm quality nor DNA, and the oxidant had no effect in control or centrifuged samples. Washed samples were not different than control, but oxidant decreased motility, mitochondrial status and viability, and altered the motility subpopulation pattern, being partially suppressed by Trolox. Spermatozoa with damaged DNA dramatically increased in the washed-oxidized sample (from 22.30 ± 3.52% to 67.94 ± 5.07%), but not when antioxidant was present. Although samples from different males behaved similarly, male-to-male variability was detected regarding susceptibility to oxidative damage after washing. We concluded that, although red deer thawed spermatozoa seemed resilient to centrifugation, the vulnerability to oxidative stress after washing makes it advisable to supplement manipulation media with antioxidants, especially taking into account male-to-male variability.
2019-04-21T22:35:05Z
2019-04-21T22:35:05Z
2019-04-22
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Theriogenology, 2009, vol. 72, n. 8
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0093691X09003161#!
http://hdl.handle.net/10612/10529
Elsevier