From: Macro- and microelements in serum and seminal plasma as biomarkers for bull sperm cryotolerance
Variables | Elements in seminal plasma (mg/L) | |||||
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Fe | Se | Zn | ||||
Semen characteristics (%) | β (95% CI) | P | β (95% CI) | P | β (95% CI) | P |
Fresh semen | ||||||
Motilitya | 1,30,610 (38,101–2,23,118) | 0.0075 | −1,26,431 (−1,164,930 to 9,12,069) | 0.8044 | 61,517 (−58,790 to 1,81,823) | 0.3029 |
Progressive motilitya | 1,19,776 (56,976–1,82,575) | 0.0006 | −77,622 (−7,82,609 to 6,27,364) | 0.8227 | 42,553 (−39,118–1,24,223) | 0.2940 |
Acrosome defectsb | −0.4749 (−0.8642 to −0.0855) | 0.0188 | 2.3681 (−2.0026 to 6.7388) | 0.2756 | −2.0780 (−1.0140 to −0.0013) | 0.0494 |
DNA fragmentation | −1.6851 (−3.1603 to −0.2099) | 0.0268 | −1.9652 (−18.5260 to 14.5956) | 0.8092 | −1.3558 (−3.2743 to 0.5627) | 0.1583 |
Frozen-thawed semen | ||||||
Viabilitya | 1,14,891 (24,909–2,04,872) | 0.0143 | −1,56,982 (−1,167,111 to 8,53,146) | 0.7519 | 72,103 (−44,917 to 1,89,124) | 0.2165 |
DNA fragmentation | −3.4984 (−5.7577 to −1.2391) | 0.0038 | −5.7146 (−31.0774 to 19.6481) | 0.6471 | −1.0197 (−3.9579 to 1.9185) | 0.4820 |