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Published on: February 5, 2010
Can SCSA and TUNEL forecast apoptosis-related motility depletion in Asthenozoospermia?
Z Moradian Fard1, M Naghdi2, P Salehi3
1Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Fasa University of Medical Science, Fasa, Iran.
Abstract:
This study is an attempt to determine the power of SCSA and TUNEL for the evaluation of apoptosis status and apoptosis-related motility depletion in Asthenozoospermia. Fifty-one semen samples from Asthenozoospermic and 20 samples from fertile men participated in this study. SCSA and TUNEL were applied for the assessment of DNA integrity by flow cytometry. Annexin V conjugated with FITC labelling and FLICA method were used for the assessment of externalisation of phosphatidylserine and spermatozoon with active Caspase 3 respectively. SCSA results were shown to have a significant correlation with EPS in live spermatozoon (r = .85, p value = .00) and spermatozoon with active Caspase 3 (r = .633, p value = .00). TUNEL result was revealed to have a nonsignificant positive correlation with them. Then, Asthenozoospermic individuals were divided into two groups, SCSA higher and SCSA lower than 27%. Results interestingly indicated that the two groups significantly differed from each other in terms of TUNEL, EPS in live spermatozoon, spermatozoon with active Caspase 3 and sperm vitality (p value = .00). Both SCSA and TUNEL were correlated with apoptosis-related motility depletion in Asthenozoospermia. However, SCSA might be more powerful than TUNEL and could provide reliable information about DNA, chromatin integrity and apoptosis status in Asthenozoospermia.
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