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ArticleTranslational animal science2021

Assessment of an iPad-based sperm motility analyzer for determination of canine sperm motility.

Evelyn Bulkeley, Christine Collins, Azarene Foutouhi, Kris Gonzales, Heather Power, Stuart Meyers

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Article in Translational animal science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Sperm Gone Smart: A Portable Device (iSpermAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Evelyn BulkeleyDepartment of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Christine CollinsDepartment of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Azarene FoutouhiDepartment of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Kris GonzalesVeterinary Services, Guide Dogs for the Blind, San Rafael, CA, USA.
Heather PowerVeterinary Services, Guide Dogs for the Blind, San Rafael, CA, USA.
Stuart MeyersDepartment of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
University of California, Davis · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the repeatability and accuracy of canine sperm motility (total and progressive) assessment with a tablet-based Canine iSperm instrument compared to computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA). The experiment used fresh and frozen/thawed canine semen samples for comparisons of semen analysis parameters (concentration, total motility, and progressive motility) between a CASA system, iSperm, and NucleoCounter SP-100 (concentration) instruments. Spearman's Rho correlational analysis was used to identify significant associations between motility assessment methods. Significant positive correlations were found between CASA assessment and iSperm for both progressive and total motility measurements. We also determined the coefficient of variation (CV) for repeatability of sample analysis for iSperm and CASA for fresh sperm, wherein each sample was assessed 10 times on both devices. For fresh and frozen-thawed samples, concentration assessment by iSperm showed high variability (CV= 19.9 ± 1.5%). For iSperm assessment of total and progressive motility, the CVs were 6.3 ± 0.5% and 10.7 ± 0.8%, respectively. The results indicate that the iSperm application offers an accurate and alternative measurement of motility to traditional CASA analysis, though caution should be taken when assessing concentration due to the high CV observed in this study.

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