Cryopreservation media differentially affect sperm motility, morphology and DNA integrity

Human sperm freezing is very widely used for male fertility preservation. This procedure consists in adding cryoprotectants to the spermatozoa followed by cooling and storing the spermatozoa at a subzero temperature. Many standardized cryopreservation media are available on the market. However, these media differ in their chemical composition and there are no sufficient data to optimize their classification. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare five commercially available sperm cryopreservation media, which have not been compared together, in terms of motility, morphology and DNA integrity.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Andrology

• Publication date

  2018-08-13

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/andr.12531PMID 30105872
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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