• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.748-756
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• 2000

Effects of xanthine (X), xanthine oxidase (XO), and catalase (C), $H_2O_2$, and carbohydrates on sperm capacitation, acrosome reaction, and fertilizing ability in vitro were examined. Glucose alone, but not fructose, supported the maximum rate of sperm capacitation and acrosome reaction. However, in the combination of X, XO, and C (XXOC) or $H_2O_2$, fructose alone also supported maximum capacitation, acrosome reaction, and fertilization. Either insufficient or excessive amounts of $H_2O_2$ decreased sperm capacitation and the acrosome reaction. In order to understand how glucose generates $H_2O_2$ or other reactive oxygen species in sperm cells, 6-aminonicotinamide, an inhibitor of the pentose-phosphate pathway (PPP), and apocynin, an inhibitor of NADPH oxidase, were added to sperm suspensions in glucose-containing medium. Results appeared that sperm capacitation, acrosome reaction, and fertilization were consequently inhibited by either one of these compounds. These inhibitory effects were nullified by addition of XXOC. These results support the hypothesis that glucose, in addition to being a substrate for glycolysis, facilitates sperm capacitation and the acrosome reaction by generating reactive oxygen species through G-6-P dehydrogenase and NADPH oxidase.

• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.15-22
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• 1995

Since the turn of the century, scientists have earnestly sought to develop a single laboratory assay or combination of laboratory assays which accurately predict the fertility of a semen sample. Most of these assays have focused on evaluating physical characteristics of sperm such as motility, viability, acrosomal integrity and morphology. In recent years new approches have been used to assess the functional aspects of a sperm that are needed to reach the oocyte, fertilize it and contribute to successful embryo development. Among these techniques are the ability of sperm to undergo a heparin induced acrosome reaction and in vitro fertilization, and the affinity of sperm to bind heparin binding protein. Intensification of research efforts in the area of control of sperm fertilizing ability should be a high priority, in view of undoubted benifits both to our basic understanding of sperm fertilizing ability and to our ability to modify it for Al industry.

• Animal Bioscience
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• 제34권12호
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• pp.1879-1885
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• 2021

Objective: Owing to the lack of a breeding index for efficient and quick fertility evaluations of Holstein bulls when using traditional or genome-wide detection methods, this study aimed to determine whether in vitro fertilization (IVF) could be used as an indicator of conception rate of artificial insemination (AI). Methods: Conventional and sexed frozen semen from nine bulls were used for IVF and AI. Results: The IVF and AI conception rates of each bull were confirmed to be positively correlated between the conventional frozen and sexed frozen semen. The correlation coefficient R values of nine bulls between IVF and AI methods were 0.73 and 0.97 for the conventional frozen and sexed frozen semen, respectively. The average conception rate of three bulls undergoing AI was 69.5% and 64.2%, 61.8% and 58.8%, and 48.2% and 46.2% in first-, second-, and third-born cows when conventional frozen and sexed frozen semen were used, respectively, which showed a positive correlation with the fertilization rate in the same parity. We propose an evaluation standard to assess the fertilization ability of bulls based on their IVF test results, which is categorized into three grades: grade one, normal fertility bull with an AI conception rate of 40%±5% and IVF rate of 45% to 60%; grade two, higher fertility bull with an AI conception rate of 50%±5% and IVF rate of 61% to 80%; and grade three, highest fertility bull with an AI conception rate of 60%±5% and IVF rate of >80%. Conclusion: These findings reveal that IVF results can be used as a breeding index for bulls to evaluate their AI conception ability, which may shorten the time required to select bulls for breeding.

• 한국초지조사료학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.97-102
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• 1986

본(本) 시험(試驗)은 2차천이(次遷移) 식생(植生)의 Carex ferruginea 군락(群落)인 독일(獨逸)의 남부지방인(南部地方)에 위치(位置)한 Bavarian Alps 지역(地域)에서 PK-시비(施肥) 및 면양(緬羊) 방목(放牧)에 의(依)한 식물군락(植物群落)의 천이(遷移)를 조사(調査)코자 수행(遂行)되었다. 1. Carex ferruginea 군락(群落)은 처리(處理)(환경(環境)) 조건(條件)에 의(依)해 변화(變化)되었는데 면양방목(緬羊放牧)보다는 PK-시비(施肥) 및 방목(放牧)이 더 효과적(效果的)이었다. 2. Carex ferruginea, Melica nutans, Brachypodium sylvaticum, Calamagrostis varia 등(等)의 야초(野草)는 양분흡수력(養分吸收力)이 비교적(比較的) 약(弱)하므로 PK-시비(施肥)에 의(依)해 점차(漸次) 소멸(消滅)되었고, 양분흡수력(養分吸收力)이 강(强)한 Festuca rubra, Agrostis tenuis, Poa trivialis, Trifolium repens 등(等)의 초종(草種)은 증가(增加)되었다. 3. 시험지(試驗地)의 식물군락(植物群落)의 생활형(生活型)은 반지중식물(半地中植物)(Hemicryptophyte)이 55%, 지중식물(地中植物)(Geophyte)이 40%였으나, PK-시비(施肥) 및 면양방목(緬羊放牧)에 의(依)해 반지중식물(半地中植物)은 19% 증가(增加)되었고, 지중식물(地中植物)은 31%나 감소(減少)되었다. 그러나 시비(施肥)를 하지 않고 면양방목(緬羊放牧)만 한 곳은 지중식물(地中植物)은 11% 증가(增加)되었으며, 반지중식물(半地中植物)은 시험(試驗) 전(前)보다 12% 감소(減少)되었다. 4. 시험(試驗) 착수당시(着手當時)의 Carex ferruginea 군락(群落)은 PK-시비(施肥) 및 면양방목(緬羊放牧)에 의(依)해 왕김의 털(Festuca rubra) 군락(群落)으로 천이(遷移)되었다.

• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.283-287
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• 2015

The aim of the present study was to investigate the ovulation rate and its relationship to fertilization ability in Landrace, Durock and Crossbred pigs. Gilts were natural mated at a body weight of at least 120 kg under the same hormone treatment. Embryos were surgically collected 1 day after natural mating (Day 0). Embryos derived from in vivo-fertilized oocytes were cultured in medium PZM-3. The ovaries were examined and the pathological findings were recorded. The number of corpus hemorrhagicum was counted, and was assumed to equal the ovulation rate. There was no difference in the number of corpus hemorrhagicum (20.4, 28.8 and 23.2) and ovulation (13.5, 26.8 and 17.2) in the Landrace, Durock and Crossbred pigs. The two pronucleus formation was 76.0, 80.0 and 86.9%. The Day-7 embryos had blastocyst rates of 68.0, 75.0 and 73.9%. There was no difference in the number of total cells and apoptotic cells. In the future, more studies require determining relationships between ovulation and fertilization rate in different species of pigs.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.173-177
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• 1989

Defective or inadequate semen quality, usually presenting as low sperm count or poor sperm motility , is recognizable by semen analysis. However, the ability of spermatozoa to fertilize an ovum is not determined used in various experiments. In this study, hamster oocyte sperm penetration assay was used to determine the fertilizing capacity of sperms in 20 subjects which divided into two groups, group A with 10 normal fertile men, and group B with 10 infertile men. The % penetration in group A and group B were 61% and 35% respectively, which showed statistically not significant but fertilization index was significantly different between group A(FI=2.24) and group B(FI=O.05). Additionally it seemed that the percentage of sperm penetraton was influenced more by the motility of spermatozoa than by the number.

• 한국가축번식학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.225-230
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• 1992

Many transgenic mice expressing human growth hormone gene were infertile. To investigate the infertility of these transfenic mice, it was looked into the estrus cycle and sexual behaviour and also tested through in vitro fertilization whether the germ cells of these mice normal or not. The infertile female transgenic mice were mated to the fertile males of ICR strain, but in almost all of them the vaginal plugs were not detected and their estrus cycles by vaginal smear were almost irregular which kept up estrus or diestrus stage. Many male transgenic mice did not have the ability of sexual behaviour. Therefore the viability of germ cells in infertile male transgenic mice was investigated by in vitro fertilization, but the sperm were normally fertilized with the eggs and the transgene of parent was passed on to the progeny. These results consequently suggest that the infertility of transgenic mice experssing human growth hormone gene may be due to the physiological activity of human growth hormone, not germ cells.

• 한국가축번식학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.188-194
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• 1989

These experiments were carried out to investigate fertilizable and developmental ability after zona drilling the unfertilized eggs and the eggs not fertilized by the 1st insemination. The results of in vitro fertilization of the mouse eggs treated by using micromanipulation and acid tyrode's solution with capacitated epididymal spermatozoa were as follows. In the case of ovulated unfertilized eggs, according to sperm count(106, 105, 104 and 103/ml) the rates of in vitro fertlilization treated by zona drilling were 86.0%, 82.0%, 70.0% and 54.0%, respectively, and those of control were 58.0%, 52.0%, 12.0% and 8.0%, respectively. The rates of in vitro fertilization of zona drilled eggs were significantly high compared with those of control, and there were no significant difference between two groups. According to the sperm count the zona drilled eggs developed to the blastocysts were 51.4%, 40.5%, 23.3% and 17.4% and those of control were 35.7%, 26.3%, 0% and 0%, respectively. Also, in the eggs not fertilized by 1st insemination, the fertilization rates of oocytes reinseminated after zona drilling was significantly higher(83.5%) than that of control(34.7%), and the rates of polyspermy were similar. The rates of development to the blastocysts was 18.6% in the zona drilling treated eggs, and that of control was 27.3%, there was no significant difference between two groups. These results indicated that oocytes not fertilized by 1st insemination as well as ovulated unfertilized eggs could be fertilized, improve fertilizing rates by zona drilling treatment, and development potential were normal.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.583-593
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• 2015

본 연구는 토양의 지력향상과 환경오염을 감소시키고, 안전한 유기축산물의 생산에 기여할 수 있는 유기조사료를 효율적으로 생산하기 위해 대표적인 동계사료작물인 호밀에 콩과 사료작물 혼파와 발효우분을 시용하여 생산성과 사료가치를 평가하고, 가축분뇨의 적정 시용수준을 구명하여 단위면적당 유기 한우의 사육 능력을 추정하고자 하였다. 조단백질 수량은 단파구(평균 353 kg/ha)보다 콩과사료작물 혼파구가(평균 760~786 kg/ha) 유의적으로 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 단파, 사료용 완두 혼파구는 무비구에 비해 질소시비 수준이 증가할수록 높아지는 경향을 보였다. 호밀에 콩과 사료작물 혼파에 따른 조단백질 함량은 단파구(평균 4.93%)보다 혼파구가(평균 8.29~9.90%) 유의적으로 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 질소 시비 수준에 따른 비교에서는 호밀 단파구의 경우 무비구 보다 50 kg N/ha구가 유의하게 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). TDN 함량은 호밀 단파구가 평균 46.86%로 콩과 사료작물 혼파구의 평균 49.96~50.12% 보다 낮은 경향이었고, 특히 질소시비 수준이 150 kg N/ha구에서는 사료용 완두 혼파구가 54.55%로 가장 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 호밀의 사료가치에 따른 단위면적당 연간 유기가축 사육능력은 단파구(평균 2.26두) 보다 콩과 작물 혼파구가 3.72~4.12두로 유의하게 높은 사육능력을 보였다(p<0.05). 이상의 결과를 종합해 볼 때, 경북남부지역에서 유기 가축사육 능력 증대를 위한 호밀의 생산성과 사료가치 향상을 위해서는 콩과 사료작물의 혼파가 필요하며, 콩과작물 혼파와 함께 가축분뇨의 적정 시용수준 추정은 앞으로 추가 시험과 함께 조사가 더 필요하다고 사료된다.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.345-351
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• 2013

This study examines the effects on fertilization rate (FR), hatching rate (HR), and normal individual rate after artificial fertilization using frozen thawed sperm according to the cryoprotectant (DMSO) concentration and the period of cryopreserved sperm of longtooth grouper, Epinephelus bruneus. Performing artificial fertilization using frozen-thawed sperm, after freezing the sperm at different DMSO concentration of 5.0%, 7.5%, 10.0% respectively, FR were (DMSO 5.0%: $99.5{\pm}0.8%$, DMSO 7.5%: $99.5{\pm}0.7%$, and DMSO 10.0%: $99.6{\pm}0.6%$). The results are not significantly different from the control fresh sperm (100%). HR also (DMSO 5.0%: $96.2{\pm}2.3%$, DMSO 7.5%: $95.3{\pm}3.6%$, 10.0%: $96.6{\pm}1.8%$) were not significantly different in each group. The normal individual rate after hatching using with control fresh sperm ($98.4%{\pm}0.5$) and DMSO concentration level of 5.0% ($97.8{\pm}0.1%$) were not significantly different. However, with 7.5% ($97.2{\pm}0.6%$) and 10.0% DMSO concentrations ($95.9{\pm}0.2%$) are lower than the normal individual rate after hatching observed in the control and 5.0% DMSO. Performing artificial fertilization using frozen-thawed sperm at different frozen period (2 days, 2 years, and 3 years), 10% DMSO FR and HR of 3 years (FR; $66.8{\pm}1.8%$, HR: $82.0{\pm}12.9%$) and 2 years (FR; $78.5{\pm}14.8%$, HR: $79.3{\pm}0.6%$) cryopreserved sperm were lower than control (FR; 100%, HR: $91.1{\pm}3.6%$) and 2 days cryopreserved sperm (FR; $99.6{\pm}0.6%$, HR: $96.6{\pm}1.8%$). These results suggest suitable DMSO concentration ranges of cryopreservation sperm for E. bruneus is 5 to 10% and with 2 to 3 years cryopreservation period, cryopreservation sperm can be useful for seed production.