Does natural honey have beneficial effect on honamlı buck semen during liquid storage?
<b>Aim:</b> Honey has been produced by honey bee comprises high level of sugars which could be beneficial effects on spermatozoa. The main goal of this study was to determine the natural honey addition on the spermatological parameters of Honamlı buck spermatozoa during liquid storage at...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Selcuk University Press
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| Series: | Eurasian Journal of Veterinary Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://eurasianjvetsci.org/pdf.php3?id=1362 |
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| Summary: | <b>Aim:</b> Honey has been produced by honey bee comprises high level of sugars
which could be beneficial effects on spermatozoa. The main goal of this study
was to determine the natural honey addition on the spermatological parameters
of Honamlı buck spermatozoa during liquid storage at 4 °C up to 96 hours.<p>
<b>Materials and Methods:</b> At the breeding season a total of three Honamlı
bucks were used in this study. Four extenders were prepared with tris-egg yolk
first was as a control (no honey added) and others had concentrate as 1, 3 and
6% honey into the base extender. Sperm parameters were assessed including
subjective motility, membrane integrity and abnormality at 0, 24, 48, 72 and
96 th hours.<p>
<b>Results: </b>The motility of Honamlı buck spermatozoa was higher control and
1% honey added group compared the 3% and 6% up to 96 hour (p<0.05).
On the other hand 3 and 6% honey supplemented groups motility was getting
worse until 24th hour (p<0.05). While membrane integrity results have
shown that only 1% honey addition group higher than the other honey groups
(p<0.05).<p>
<b>Conclusion:</b> Our data suggested that 1% honey could be added to Tris based
extender for improving the Honamlı buck sperm quality in short term storage. |
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| ISSN: | 1309-6958 2146-1953 |