Journal
ANDROLOGIA
Volume 50, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/and.12986
Keywords
fertility; male factor; sperm DNA fragmentation; sperm donors
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- Secretaria de Estado de Investigacion, Desarrollo e Innovacion [BFU-2013-44290-R]
- RETOS program [RTC-2016-4733-1]
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Static assessment of sperm DNA Fragmentation (SDF at the time of ejaculation or sperm thawing when cryopreserved) and the dynamic assessment of SDF (SDF assessed after T2hr, T6hr and T24hr of sperm thawing) were used to establish cut-off values associated with sperm donors when compared with closely related normozoospermic patients. Cryopreserved samples from donors revealed SDF levels two times lower in comparison with the patients. Donor sperm DNA exhibited a 2.5 times higher longevity when compared with the patients. Static values of SDF after thawing of approximately 11% identify the donors with a 71% of sensitivity and 84% specificity. With respect to the dynamic assessment, SDF increases of 2.3 per hr during the first 2hr of incubation identify the donors with 70% of sensitivity and 66% of specificity. Creating the Rate of Combined Damage (RCD) defined as the product of SDF-T-0 by the increase in the damage registered during the first 2hr of incubation (r-SDF-T0-2), an index of RCD=22.2 units has an identification capacity of donors with a 78% sensitivity and 77% specificity. Such cut-off values could be used to characterise donors with high chromatin resistance to damage when meeting the above-established criteria.
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