Relationships Between Seminal Plasma Metabolites, Semen Characteristics and Sperm Kinetics in Donkey ()

Overview

Journal Animals (Basel)

Date 2021 Jan 20

PMID 33467749

Citations 6

Authors

Maria Antonietta Castiglione Morelli

Angela Ostuni

Brunella Giangaspero

Stefano Cecchini

Augusto Carluccio

Raffaele Boni

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Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate donkey seminal plasma metabolites and relate this information to the main characteristics of sperm quality. Sperm kinetics from 10 donkey stallions were analyzed with a computerized system at the time of collection (T0) and after 24 h storage at 4 °C (T24). Seminal plasma was frozen at -80 °C for subsequent proton nuclear magnetic resonance (H NMR) spectroscopy. On three stallions, semen collection was repeated monthly for three times and sperm analysis also included mitochondrial activity and oxidative status. One stallion was azoospermic and a second semen collection was performed after one month. In the seminal plasma, 17 metabolites were identified; their levels showed numerous significant variations between the azoospermic and the normospermic individuals and grouped in well-defined clusters in a multivariate analysis. Comparing individuals with high and low sperm motility, the only discriminating metabolite was phenylalanine, whose levels were lower in the latter, as in the azoospermic individual. Phenylalanine was also the only metabolite highly correlated with all sperm kinematic parameters at T24. In conclusion, the present study has provided relevant information on the chemical characteristics of donkey semen, identified relationships between seminal metabolites, semen parameters, and sperm kinetics, and offered insights for future technological applications.

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