Abstract:
In order to explore the effect of various concentrations of arginine and bovine serum albumin(BSA)added to the diluent on the quality of Dezhou donkey frozen semen, and to find out the optimal mixed concentration of the two reagents, in the experiment, Dezhou donkey semen was diluted with conventional frozen diluent of donkey semen with different concentrations of arginine(0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 mg/mL) and BSA(1, 2, 3, 4, 5 mg/mL).The diluted semen was cryopreserved with liquid nitrogen for 30 days and then thawed to determine the sperm viability, acrosome integrity and plasma membrane integrity of semen, so as to find the optimal concentration.Then the optimal concentrations of Arg and BSA and their adjacent concentrations were selected.Dezhou donkey semen was diluted 9 concentrations in pairs, and the optimal combination concentration was found according to the above steps. The results showed that when Arg was added alone, the sperm viability, acrosome integrity and plasma membrane integrity of semen at the concentration of 1.5 mg/mL were better than those at other concentrations, and compared with no arginine, the acrosome integrity rate was significantly improved(P<0.05).When BSA was added alone, the sperm viability and plasma membrane integrity of semen at the concentration of 3 mg/mL were better than those at other concentrations, but there was no significant effect on the acrosome integrityrate; compared with no BSA, the sperm viability and acrosome integrity were significantly improved(P<0.01).The combined supplementation of Arg and BSA(except 1.5 mg/mL×3 mg/mL, 1.5 mg/mL×4 mg/mL and 2.0 mg/mL×4 mg/mL) could improve the sperm viability, acrosome integrity and plasma membrane integrity of donkey semen to a certain extent, among which the combination of 1.0 mg/mL×2 mg/mL had the best effect on sperm viability and acrosome integrity, and plasma membrane integrity was good.The plasma membrane integrity rate in the combination of 1.0 mg/mL×3 mg/mL was the highest.The results indicated that the combined addition of Arg and BSA could improve the quality of frozen Dezhou donkey semen to some extent.The combination of the two reagents had a certain synergistic effect, and the best combination concentration was arginine 1.0 mg/mL and BSA 2 mg/mL or 3 mg/mL.