Efeito de meios diluentes sobre a viabilidade do sêmen congelado bovino.

Abstract

For the economy, the Brazilian industry of cattle is a very important activity because it is one area that gives the possibility of having a very big potential in terms of growth. Having this in mind, it can conclude that the artificial insemination is probably one of the most important way for contributing with the advancement of the modern animal techniques used for the production, however, it requires the use of the frozen semen for this realization. During the cryopreservation process, a decrease in the number of sperm viability happens because of the osmotic effects, temperature, and morphological changes that occur because of the organization changes, fluidity, permeability and the lipid composition of sperm membranes. The interaction presents between sperm cells and the thinner represents a crucial factor to preserve the integrity and the fertilizing ability. The thinner has as main objective to protect the sperm cells during the cold shock, and also in the freezing and thawing. Conventional parameters used in the sperm evaluation have showed that they are limited in their ability of predicting the semen potential fertility, and then tests that have different characteristics of the sperm and evaluation of many attributes can provide a better fertility estimate. To evaluate the integrity of the plasmatic membrane, it was successfully utilized one combination of fluorescent probe (IP that means propidium iodide and CFDA that means carboxyfluorescein diacetate). The system CASA (one computer program that analyzes the semen) provides real information about the individual cell movement and also the subpopulations of sperm cells realizing draw for each sperm that has as objective to represent the real path. This review has the objective of presenting the relevant information to the effect of thinners in the frozen ox semen (Bos taurus indicus).