MONTHLY CHANGES IN TESTICULAR ULTRASONOGRAPHY AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH RAM SPERM QUALITY

MONTHLY CHANGES IN TESTICULAR ULTRASONOGRAPHY AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH RAM SPERM QUALITY

Testicularultrasonographyisanon-invasive,complementarytechniquewhichprovidesinformationabouttestesechotextureandbloodflow.Theechotexture,or theultrasonographicappearanceofthetissue,canbeassessedbydeterminingthepixels’ intensityanduniformity. Asspermatogenesisintheramtakesabout 50dtocomplete,afterwhi...

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Main Authors: Carvajal Serna, M., Santorroman, M., Barale, J., Cardozo, J., Cebrián Pérez, J., Muiño Blanco, T., Abecia, A., Pérez Pé, R., Casao, A.
Other Authors: Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA)
Format: conference poster
Language:Inglés
Published: Universidad de Zaragoza 2024
Subjects:
Ram
Sperm quality
Testicular ultrasonography
Ganadería y especies menores
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12324/39738
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Summary:Testicularultrasonographyisanon-invasive,complementarytechniquewhichprovidesinformationabouttestesechotextureandbloodflow.Theechotexture,or theultrasonographicappearanceofthetissue,canbeassessedbydeterminingthepixels’ intensityanduniformity. Asspermatogenesisintheramtakesabout 50dtocomplete,afterwhichtimethespermatozoaentertheepididymisforfinalmaturation,ultrasonographicscanningoftheram’stestesmayallowusto predictthequalityof fullymaturespermatozoaejaculatedinabout60d.Hence, informationabouttesticulartissueswouldbearapiddeterminationof the presentandthefuturesemenquality,respectively.Thus,thisstudyaimedtoevaluateseasonaldifferencesintestisultrasonographyparametersprovidedbythe ECOTEXTsoftware(Humeco,Spain), resistive(RI)andpulsatilityindexes(PI)byDoppler,andtheirrelationshipwithpresentandfuture(4and8weeksafter ultrasonographyevaluation)spermquality.

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