title: Collection and freezing of epididymal stallion sperm.
abstract: The ability to harvest and preserve epididymal sperm from a stallion after simple elective castration, a catastrophic injury, or severe acute illness and subsequent death has been realized, allowing for the preservation of genetics that would have been lost otherwise.Currently, the care taken to collect the testes and epididymides properly, coupled with proper packaging and shipping, could make the greatest contribution to salvaging viable sperm. As advances in assisted reproductive techniques continue, more offspring may be obtained from stored epididymal sperm from valuable stallions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Sciences, Equine Reproduction Laboratory, Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory, Colorado State University, 3194 Rampart Road, Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA. jason.bruemmer@colostate.edu
authors.forename: Jason E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Bruemmer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001947:Breeding / Q000379:methods*; D015925:Cryopreservation / Q000662:veterinary*; D004822:Epididymis / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D006736:Horses / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D012662:Semen Preservation / Q000379:methods / Q000662:veterinary*; D013076:Sperm Count / Q000662:veterinary; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D014649:Vas Deferens / Q000502:physiology