Effect of oviductal tissues from hens differing in fertility duration on the respiration of washed chicken spermatozoa.
Washed chicken spermatozoa (WCS) were incubated in vitro at 40 C with reconstituted utero-vaginal (UVJ) and infundibular-magnal (IMJ) junction tissues from hens classified as to duration of fertility, long (L) 18.6 days and short (S), 10.0 days. The cumulative respiration of WCS incubated with UVJ tissue was significantly higher (P less than .05) than that incubated with IMJ tissue, regardless of the fertility duration group. Tissues UVJ and IMJ from L duration hens elicited significantly greater oxygen uptake from WCS than did corresponding tissues from S duration hens. Long-UVJ tissue incubated with WCS had the highest oxygen uptake throughout the 3-h incubation period.
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D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D010057:Oviducts / Q000502:physiology*; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000378:metabolism*