Consuegra, CesarCrespo Castejón, FranciscoDorado Martín, JesúsDíaz Jiménez MaríaPereira Aguilar BlasaArenas, RMorrel, J MHidalgo Prieto Manuel2024-01-312024-01-312019-1210) Consuegra C, Crespo F, Dorado J, Diaz-Jimenez M, Pereira B, Ortiz I, Arenas R, Morrell JM, Hidalgo M. Vitrification of Large Volumes of Stallion Sperm in Comparison With Spheres and Conventional Freezing: Effect of Warming Procedures and Sperm Selection. J Equine Vet Sci. 2019 Dec;83:1026800737-080610.1016/j.jevs.2019.01.017.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/97196Stallion sperm was vitrified using straws in comparison with spheres and conventional freezing. Vitrification was performed plunging 30 mL of sperm (spheres) or 0.5 mL straws into liquid nitrogen (LN2) and conventional freezing using 0.5 mL straws frozen in LN2 vapors. Sperm vitrified in straws were submitted to different warming procedures (42C/20 seconds; 60C/15 seconds) and single-layer centrifugation (SLC). Total (TM, %) and progressive sperm motility (PM, %), plasma mem-brane (IMS, %) and acrosome integrity (AIS, %) were statistically compared between treatments (mean ± SEM). Significant higher values (P < .001) were obtained after vitrification using spheres in comparison with conventional freezing and vitrification in straws for TM (54.46 ± 3.2 vs. 36.47 ± 3.2 vs. 2.50 ± 1.2, %), PM (38.63 ± 3.4 vs. 15.11 ± 2.0 vs. 1.9 ± 0.9, %), IMS (65.40 ± 2.8 vs. 50.50 ± 2.8 vs. 21.63 ± 2.1, %), and AIS (48.89 ± 2.8 vs. 15.46 ± 1.7 vs. 4.69 ± 0.9, %). No differences were found between warming procedures. Single-layer centrifugation after warming at 42C/20 seconds ob-tained higher values (P < .05) than unselected samples for TM (32.52 ± 5.8%), PM (14.22 ± 2.8%), IMS (60.01 ± 3.2%), and AIS (44.5 ± 2.2%), whereas selection after 60C/15 seconds increased TM (23.11 ± 4.3%) and IMS (67.11 ± 3.9%). In conclusion, vitrification in spheres obtained better sperm quality than conventional freezing and vitrification in straws. Warming procedures did not affect the sperm quality but SLC could be a strategy to enhance the quality of the samples after sperm vitrification using 0.5 mL strawsengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalVitrification of Large Volumes of Stallion Sperm in Comparison With Spheres and Conventional Freezing: Effect of Warming Procedures and Sperm Selectionjournal articlehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-equine-veterinary-science31791531.open access636.09SemenStallionVitrificationStrawSheperesVeterinaria24 Ciencias de la Vida