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Morphological changes in sperm cells during epididymal transit in West African dwarf buck

The spermatozoa characteristics during epididymal transit were studied .in healthy West African dwarf (WAD) goat bucks. The caput epididymis had a value of 27.0% of abnormal sperm cell, which is significantly different (P<0.05) from the 21.0% of corpus and 23.0% of the cauda epididymis. There was no...

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720 |a Oyeyemi, M. O.  |e author 
720 |a Ola-Davies, O. E.  |e author 
720 |a Oke, O. A.  |e author 
720 |a Idehen, C. O.  |e author 
260 |c 2000 
520 |a The spermatozoa characteristics during epididymal transit were studied .in healthy West African dwarf (WAD) goat bucks. The caput epididymis had a value of 27.0% of abnormal sperm cell, which is significantly different (P<0.05) from the 21.0% of corpus and 23.0% of the cauda epididymis. There was no significant difference (P>0.05) between the values of corpus and caudal epididymis. The caput epididymis also had 6.0% spermatozoa with proximal cytoplasmic droplets which differed significantly (P<0.05) from that of the corpus (1.20%) and the cauda (0.9%), The values for coiled tails and tire total abnormal sperm cells showed that caput epididymis had higher abnormal spermatozoa, which was closely followed by cauda while the corpus epididymis had the least. There were more spermatozoa with looped tails in the cauda epididymis (1.68%) than in other segment (corpus: 0.95% and caput: 0.80%). The testicular and epididymal parameters were positively correlated (weight of testis and epididymis; weight of testis, scrotal circumference, testicular circumference, weight of epididymis and weight of testis (r = >0.05) except the correlation values between length of epididymis and length of tests (r = 0.30). 
024 8 |a 2141-2529 
024 8 |a ui_art_oyeyemi_morphological_2000 
024 8 |a Tropical Veterinarian 18, pp. 207-212 
024 8 |a http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/5368 
653 |a Sperm morphology 
653 |a Epididymal transit 
653 |a Spermatozoa 
653 |a West African dwarf bucks 
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