scholarly journals Protective Effect of Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) Supplementation on Post-Thaw Motility and Fertility of Cryopreserved Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Sperm

Author(s):  
Uğur Yavuz ◽  
Yusuf Bozkurt

Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) is one of the important antioxidants, which naturally present in seminal plasma of fish. On the other hand, whether its effect may improve sperm quality following cryopreservation process still remains its uncertainty. Thus, the present study aimed to analyse the effect of different extenders supplemented with different ascorbic acid concentrations on post-thaw motility and fertility of frozen-thawed rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) sperm. Selected sperm samples were pooled and diluted at 1:3 ratios with two different extenders (E) composing such as (E-1) 300 mM glucose, 10% egg yolk and 10% DMSO and (E-2) 0.6 mM sucrose and 10% DMSO. Each extender was supplemented with vitamin C at 1, 5 and 10 mM concentrations. Following dilution, the sperm was loaded into 0.25 ml straws and frozen in liquid nitrogen vapour. The straws were then plunged into liquid nitrogen for storage. Fertilization was carried out using the dry fertilization technique. Highest post-thaw motility (50±5.77) and fertilization (56±1.00) results were obtained with the extender-1 (E-1) containing 10% DMSO concentration. In conclusion, the present study indicated that addition of ascorbic acid to the extenders improved rainbow trout sperm motility resulting higher fertilization of the eggs.

1990 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 1518-1525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Dabrowski ◽  
Reinhard Lackner ◽  
Cristine Doblander

The concentrations of ascorbic acid in several tissues of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) are significantly influenced by various dietary treatments. Ascorbic acid was taken up readily by erythrocytes, kidney, liver, intestine, spleen, and brain in fish fed an ascorbate supplemented diet (AA group), the concentration being from 1.5 to 14.8-fold higher than in fish fed a diet lacking ascorbate (control group). In fish fed a diet supplemented with an equimolar amount of ascorbic acid in the form of ascorbic sulfate (AS group) the ascorbic acid concentrations in kidney, intestine, and erythrocytes were significantly elevated above those of the control group. Ascorbic sulfate was found in kidney, liver, and intestine of the AS group, but not in other groups. In fish fed a diet devoid of vitamin C the ascorbic acid concentrations in kidney, liver, intestine, and spleen were signficantly lower than in fasting fish over the same period of time (28 d), suggesting a high demand for vitamin C in an actively feeding animal. Salmonid fish are therefore probably unable to utilize ascorbic sulfate sufficiently to prevent the appearance of vitamin C deficiency, and thus resemble scurvy-prone mammals in this respect.


1999 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Ciereszko ◽  
Konrad Dabrowski ◽  
Feng Lin ◽  
Li Liu

Low antioxidant levels have been implicated in damage to sperm DNA. We used a teleost fish to test if low paternal vitamin C status may cause mutations to the sperm and birth defects. During spermatogenesis, rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) males were fed diets with graded levels of ascorbic acid derivative that were below and severalfold higher than those required for maximum growth. This treatment resulted in corresponding changes in levels of vitamin C in seminal plasma. We found that low levels of vitamin C in seminal plasma of rainbow trout were associated with a high percentage of abnormal embryos in the offspring. Among abnormal embryos, 34.8% were haploids or aneuploids, as revealed by flow cytometric measurement of DNA content. We found that UV-irradiated sperm gave rise to progeny with abnormalities similar to those resulting from sperm with low levels of antioxidants in seminal plasma. Ascorbic acid applied directly to semen did not prevent damage due to UV irradiation. These results provide the first experimental evidence that the lack or low levels of ascorbic acid in semen correlate with damage to male germ cells.


1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. P. Palace ◽  
H. S. Majewski ◽  
J. F. Klaverkamp

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) (mean weight 180 ± 10 g) fed diets deficient in ascorbic acid, tocopherol, both, or neither were exposed to one of three cadmium concentrations (0, 2, or 4 μg Cd/L). After 181 d of exposure, liver and whole blood were sampled. Cadmium exposure was found to significantly increase the Cd content in liver, especially in fish fed a diet deficient in ascorbic acid. Hepatic stores of ascorbic acid decreased in fish exposed to Cd and in fish fed diets deficient in tocopherol and ascorbic acid. Depletion of tocopherol in liver occurred only in those fish fed a diet deficient in tocopherol and exposed to Cd. Superoxide dismutase activity in liver increased with Cd exposure and with dietary deficiencies of tocopherol and ascorbic acid, while catalase was inhibited by exposure to Cd alone. Glutathione peroxidase activity was unaffected by Cd but was lower in fish fed a diet deficient in both tocopherol and ascorbic acid. Erythrocyte fragility, measured by spontaneous hemolysis of red blood cells in physiological saline, was increased by Cd exposure and the deficiencies of dietary tocopherol and ascorbic acid.


Aquaculture ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 180 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 79-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H Blom ◽  
K Dabrowski ◽  
J.D Rapp ◽  
Y Sakakura ◽  
K Tsukamoto

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1345-1353
Author(s):  
Jun‐Ming Deng ◽  
Xin‐Dang Zhang ◽  
Jian‐Wei Zhang ◽  
Bao‐Liang Bi ◽  
Heng‐Zhi Wang ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Ninhaus-Silveira ◽  
Fausto Foresti ◽  
Yara Aiko Tabata ◽  
Marcos Guilherme Rigolino ◽  
Rosicleire Veríssimo-Silveira

Cryopreservation of semen from sex-reversed females of rainbow trout aims at rationalizing the production of stocks composed by 100% females. Semen from normal males (M) and two types of genotypic females (R and G), sex-reversed by the oral administration of 17alpha-methyltestosterone, were used. R was obtained by the fertilization of normal eggs with semen of sex-reversed females while G via gynogenetic reproduction. Semen was diluted in an extender solution (glucose 5,4 g, egg yolk 10 ml, dimetil sulfoxide 10 ml, water 80 ml) at 1:3 ratio (semen/extender), stored in straws of 0.5 ml and freezed in a dry container Cryopac CP-65, at -180ºC. Thawing was performed with water at 70ºC for 3 seconds. There were no significant fertilization rate differences (P>0.05) among thawed semen groups (M = 73.1±11.5%; R = 67.2±23.6%; G = 64±5.8%), confirming that the freezing methodology used was efficient to cryopreserve semen of all three trout groups.


Aquaculture ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 231 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 23-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikoo Arasteh ◽  
A.-H. Aminirissehei ◽  
A.N. Yousif ◽  
L.J. Albright ◽  
T.D. Durance

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