CELL DEATH DIFFERENTIATION IN BLACK HEADED RAMS SPERMATOZOA, USING FLUORESCENT LABELED ANNEXIN V
2008, 9 (2) p. 283-288
M Ivanova-Kicheva, A Kukov, D Daskalova, E Solenkova, I Nikolov, L Todorov
Abstract
Double staining kit of Annexin V Cy3.18/6-CFDA was used to investigate the changes in phospholipide asymmetry after treating sperm cells with dexamethasone. The % of spermatozoa with registered translocation of PS in treated with dexamethazone groups at the 10-th min and in control no treated varied from 2.74%±0.65 to 2.30%±0.89. After the 5 hour of incubation these % increased to 39.83±3.33 for the treated group and 23.44±1.12 for the control. It was concluded that Annexin V binding assay is more sensitive in the detection of deterioration in membrane function than other conventional methods such as motility analysis and supravital techniques.
Keywords
spermatozoa, plasma membrane, phosphatidylserine
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