Terminally differentiated avian sperm consist of a head which male genetic material locates
and flagellum that provides the motive force to propel them towards the fertilization site. The …

Over the past decades, scientists endeavored to comprehend oxidative stress in poultry
spermatozoa and its relationship with fertilizing ability, lipid peroxidation (LPO), free-radical …

Several methods have been developed to evaluate spermatozoa function in birds but many
of these are sometimes complicated, costly and not applicable to field studies (ie, performed …

Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic heavy metal element that might adversely affect sperm
function such as the acrosome reaction (AR). Although it is widely recognized that zinc (Zn) …

Despite knowledge that glucose metabolism is essential for the regulation of signaling
cascades in the sperm that are pre-assembled into specific areas and function at multistage …

The acrosome cap allows sperm to penetrate the egg membrane and produce male
pronuclei within female chicken eggs, facilitating successful fertilization. Given this, it is …

Seminal storage, both fresh and cryopreserved, has contributed to the reproduction of wild
birds in captivity, however, a method of predicting the fertilization capacity is needed …

Materials and Methods: Our work is based on an observational study made of 169 male in a
period between March 2012 and February 2017. The entire study group is composed by 208 …

Artificial insemination is beneficial for the poultry industry and breeding programs due to the
ability to efficiently use superior male chickens for mating with multiple females. This study …

The c-Jun N-terminal protein kinase mitogen-activated protein kinases (JNK MAPKs) are an
evolutionarily conserved family of serine/threonine protein kinases involved in controlling …