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Importance of Uterine Environment on Rabbit Sperm Prior to Fertilization^{1, 2,}

North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Abstract

The effect of elevated ambient temperature (32° C.) on rabbit sperm during a 6- to 8-hr, capacitation period in utero was determined by fertilization rate and embryo survival following sperm transfer to test females maintained at 21° C. and mated to vasectomized males 10 hr. prior to sperm deposition. No significant difference was observed in fertilizing capacity between sperm recovered from females at 21° and 32° C. However, there was a significant reduction in preimplantation embryo survival as a result of uterine environment on sperm due to elevated ambient temperature.

¹ This Investigation was Supported In Part By Public Health Service Research Grant Gm 09285-03, From The National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

² From the Animal Science and Zoology Departments, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh, North Carolina. Published with the approval of the Director of Research, as paper No. 1966 of the Journal Series.

³ The technical assistance of Mrs. Martha B. Walton, T. L. Wagoner and C. Marsh, Jr., is acknowledged.

⁴ Present address: Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland.

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