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sperm<br />

CHAPTER 4.1<br />

EXPERIMENT 2: influence <strong>of</strong> pre-freezing centrifugation protocol on function <strong>of</strong> thawed<br />

Mixed models were fitted in SAS 9.1.3. (PROC MIXED) with CP (1-5), ejaculate (1-5) <strong>and</strong> the<br />

interaction CP × ejaculate included as predictor variables. Stallion (1-5) was included as r<strong>and</strong>om<br />

effects to account for clustering <strong>of</strong> ejaculate in stallion. The outcome variables (percentage<br />

membrane intact sperm cells, percentage acrosome intact sperm cells, BCF, TM <strong>and</strong> PM) were<br />

normally distributed based on the inspection <strong>of</strong> QQ-plots <strong>and</strong> Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests.<br />

sperm<br />

EXPERIMENT 3: influence <strong>of</strong> centrifugation protocol on DNA integrity <strong>of</strong> fresh <strong>and</strong> cooled<br />

Since the percentages <strong>of</strong> DNA intact sperm cells were not normally distributed, a time effect<br />

(T1 vs T4) was analyzed using Wilcoxon signed ranks test. Effect <strong>of</strong> treatment was determined using<br />

Kruskal-Wallis test at T1 <strong>and</strong> T4. Analyses were done using SPSS s<strong>of</strong>tware package (version 17.0,<br />

SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL).<br />

4.1.4. Results<br />

4.1.4.1. EXPERIMENT 1: influence <strong>of</strong> the centrifugation protocol on the function <strong>of</strong><br />

fresh <strong>and</strong> cooled sperm<br />

The general sperm characteristics over all the ejaculates from the 5 stallions immediately<br />

after collection are presented in Table 2.<br />

There was an overall effect <strong>of</strong> CP on sperm concentration in the recovered supernatant<br />

(p

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