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According to our experience, as well as that of others (Behrman and Sawada 1966; Steinberger and Smith 1973) artificial insemination with frozen semen provides fewer successful pregnancies than insemination with fresh specimens. The bulk of available information (Sherman 1973; Behrman 1973) further indicates that variabilities exist in sperm freezability, some samples withstanding the stress of the freeze-thawing procedure better than others. To identify semen specimens with preserved fecundity following freeze storage, the author has utilized the recovery rate of spermatozoa motility after repeated freeze-thawing as an index of sperm freeze-preservability with impressive results.
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Ansari, A.H. (1980). Repeated Freeze-Thawing for Assessment of Semen Freezability . In: Emperaire, J.C., Audebert, A., Hafez, E.S.E. (eds) Homologous Artificial Insemination (AIH). Clinics in Andrology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8817-0_15
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