PMID- 32813917 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210728 LR - 20210728 IS - 1439-0531 (Electronic) IS - 0936-6768 (Linking) VI - 56 IP - 2 DP - 2021 Feb TI - Recovery of sperms bearing X chromosomes with different concentrations of magnetic nanoparticles in ram. PG - 263-269 LID - 10.1111/rda.13807 [doi] AB - Pre-conceptual sex selection is still a highly debatable process whereby X and Y chromosome bearing spermatozoa are isolated before oocyte fertilization. Recently, magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) have been used to determine X and Y chromosomes bearing spermatozoa as a result of searching for a cheap, highly efficient method using non-toxic materials. This study aimed to recover the sperm bearing X chromosomes in ram with different concentrations of MNP and then evaluate the success of this method using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Ram sperms were divided into four groups, treated with 0 (control), 50, 100 and 200 mug/ml MNP, respectively. MNP was used to restore sperm cells bearing X chromosomes. Upon recovery, the PCR was performed to identify the X and Y sperms, Methyl ThiazoleTetrazolium (MTT), to assess MNP toxicity and sperm viability and acridine orange (AO) to evaluate sperm DNA integrity. The results of PCR revealed that the treatment of spermatozoa- bearing X chromosomes with 50 mug/ml MNP had the highest effects on the recovery of X sperm rather than the other concentrations of MNP. However, the concentrations of MNP did not have any toxic effects on spermatozoa, sperm viability and, DNA integrity, but the high concentration of MNP (200 mug/ml) significantly reduced DNA integrity. According to MTT and AO results, the concentrations of MNP used in this study had no toxic effects on spermatozoa and did not reduce the sperm viability and DNA integrity, except that 200 mug/ml MNP significantly reduced DNA integrity. CI - (c) 2020 Wiley-VCH GmbH. FAU - Moradi, Maryam AU - Moradi M AD - Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Engineering Science, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. FAU - Hajarian, Hadi AU - Hajarian H AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0738-429X AD - Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Engineering Science, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. FAU - Karamishabankareh, Hamed AU - Karamishabankareh H AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4810-2415 AD - Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Engineering Science, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. FAU - Soltani, Leila AU - Soltani L AD - Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Engineering Science, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. FAU - Soleymani, Bijan AU - Soleymani B AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3059-413X AD - Medical Biology Research Center, Health Technology Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Science, Kermanshah, Iran. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20201222 PL - Germany TA - Reprod Domest Anim JT - Reproduction in domestic animals = Zuchthygiene JID - 9015668 RN - 0 (Magnetite Nanoparticles) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cell Survival/drug effects MH - DNA Damage/drug effects MH - Magnetite Nanoparticles/*chemistry/toxicity MH - Male MH - Sex Preselection/methods/*veterinary MH - Sheep MH - Sperm Motility/drug effects MH - *Spermatozoa MH - *X Chromosome OTO - NOTNLM OT - PCR method OT - magnetic nanoparticles OT - ram OT - semen OT - sperm recovery EDAT- 2020/08/20 06:00 MHDA- 2021/07/29 06:00 CRDT- 2020/08/20 06:00 PHST- 2020/03/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/07/28 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/08/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/08/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/07/29 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/08/20 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/rda.13807 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Reprod Domest Anim. 2021 Feb;56(2):263-269. doi: 10.1111/rda.13807. Epub 2020 Dec 22.