Evaluation of the use of SYBR-14 and propidium iodide stain in a fluorescent computer-assisted spermatozoal quantification method in dogs
- 1 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Reproduction in Domestic Animals
- Vol. 56 (1), 89-102
- https://doi.org/10.1111/rda.13852
Abstract
Contents The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of SYBR-14/propidium iodide (PI) stain in a computer-assisted spermatozoal quantification (CASQ) method of determining spermatozoal concentration in canine semen. In Experiment A, the spermatozoal concentration was measured (n = 52) with a haemocytometer and by CASQ under fluorescent illumination using green long-pass (G-LP) and red long-pass filters at measurement concentrations of <25 million/ml. For the red filter, the limits of agreement between the haemocytometer and CASQ were -6.3% to 6.8% and -7.5% to 6.2% between the haemocytometer and CASQ for the G-LP filter. For the red filter, the mean precision CVs were 2.21% +/- 4.33% (mean +/- 95% CI) for the haemocytometer, 2.19% +/- 4.29% for CASQ and using the G-LP filter 2.13% +/- 4.18% for the haemocytometer and 2.66% +/- 5.21% for CASQ. In Experiment B, spermatozoa were also examined with a green spectrum short-pass (G-SP) filter (n = 50) at measurement concentrations of <12.5 million/ml. The limits of agreement between the haemocytometer and CASQ were -5.4% to 7.8% using the red filter, -15.8% to 14.3% using the G-LP filter and -13.1% to 11.3% using the G-SP filter. The mean precision CVs for the haemocytometer and CASQ, respectively, were 2.68% +/- 5.26% (mean +/- 95% CI) and 1.93% +/- 3.72% using the red filter and 2.01% +/- 3.95% and 3.55% +/- 6.95% using the G-LP filter, and 3.96% +/- 7.76% for CASQ using the G-SP filter. Using the red filter, the agreement between the haemocytometer and CASQ and the precision of both haemocytometer methods and CASQ were better than when using green filters. The CASQ method performed using green filters produced acceptable results; however, CASQ using a red filter with PI staining alone was superior to that using green filters and SYBR-14/PI staining.Keywords
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