ArticleTranslational animal science2019
Technical Note: The use of iSperm technology for on-farm measurement of equine sperm motility and concentration.
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- Repeatability of Selected Parameters Related to Stallion Sperm Quality and Cryotolerance.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Optimization of Black Boar Sperm Cryopreservation Efficiency with Antioxidant-Rich Plant Extracts from Djulis (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- A Mobile Sperm Analyzer with User-Friendly Microfluidic Chips for Rapid On-Farm Semen Evaluation.Biosensors · 2025Article
- Sperm Motility Evaluation in Stallion Fresh, Cooled and Frozen Semen Using a Portable Computer-Assisted Sperm Analysis System.Reproduction in domestic animals = Zuchthygiene · 2025Article
- Assessing Bovine Male Fertility in a Technological Age.Advances in anatomy, embryology, and cell biology · 2025Review
- The Motility Ratio method as a novel approach to qualify semen assessment.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Maternal restricted- and over- feeding during gestation perturb offspring sperm epigenome in sheep.Reproduction (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- Are There Differences between Methods Used for the Objective Estimation of Boar Sperm Concentration and Motility?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Predicting the Outcome of Equine Artificial Inseminations Using Chilled Semen.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Sperm Gone Smart: A Portable Device (iSpermAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Assessment of an iPad-based sperm motility analyzer for determination of canine sperm motility.Translational animal science · 2021Article
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Abstract
The iSperm is a newly released semen analysis tool from Aidmics Biotechnology Co. LTD, which allows an iPad Mini to be transformed into a handheld microscope with objective semen analysis software for equine available through the Apple Store (version 4.5.2). The aim of this study was to compare iSperm values for sperm motility and sperm concentration to current acceptable methods for semen analysis and to determine the agreement with these methods using statistical methods. Two ejaculates from each of five Standardbred stallions were used to compare sperm motility (computer-assisted semen analysis [CASA] vs. iSperm) and concentration (NucleoCounter SP-100 [NC] vs. hemocytometer vs. iSperm). Data were analyzed by first testing for the differences between the means of each method using a linear mixed-effects model. The agreement between the two continuous measurements for each method was then investigated by computing Lin's concordance correlation coefficient (CCC), with a value of 1 indicating perfect agreement between methods. Results are reported as the CCC with the associated 95% confidence interval in parentheses. Means for both total motility (TM) and progressive motility (PM) were equal between CASA and iSperm values (
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