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Evaluation of In Vitro Capacitation of Buffalo Frozen/Thawed Sperm by Different Techniques

2014· article· en· W2111493437 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Buffalo Science · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSperm and Testicular Function
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCapacitationSpermAndrologyBlastocystChemistryBiologyBiochemistryEmbryogenesisMedicine

Abstract

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This study aimed to determine the most reliable method to evaluate capacitation of buffalo frozen/thawed sperm. Frozen/thawed sperm cells were incubated in Tyrode albumin lactate pyruvate medium (TALP) in absence of capacitating agents (control) and in presence of 10 µg/ml heparin for 2 and 4 h. Capacitation was assessed by Trypan blue/Giemsa after lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) exposure, chlortetracycline (CTC) fluorescence assay and immune-localization of tyrosine phosphorylated protein. Furthermore, we evaluated the effect of heparin on penetration, cleavage rates and kinetics of embryo development after heterologous IVF. The percentage of LPC-induced acrosome reacted (AR)-sperm increased (P<0.05) with heparin compared to the control after 2 h (28.2 vs 24.4%, respectively) and 4 h (35.1 vs 32.0 %, respectively). No differences in CTC pattern B (capacitated sperm) were found between groups and incubation times (on average 63%). On the contrary, heparin decreased (P<0.01) the percentage of tyrosine phosphorylation pattern A after 2 and 4 h (34.3 and 35.3%, respectively) compared to the control (54.5 and 51.8%, respectively) and increased (P<0.01) that of pattern EA after 2 and 4 h (59.2 and 54.2 %, respectively) compared to the control group (44.7 and 45.2 %, respectively). Both cleavage and penetration rates, as well as the percentage of fast developing embryos, were higher (P<0.01) in the heparin-treated group (77.2, 80.4 and 74.0 %, respectively) compared to the control (56.6, 58.0 and 55.2 %, respectively). In conclusion, Trypan blue/Giemsa staining to evaluate LPC-induced AR and tyrosine protein phosphorylation assay can be successfully used to evaluate capacitation of buffalo frozen/thawed semen.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.144
Threshold uncertainty score0.286

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.304
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it