Table of Contents 1
Cover
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Preface
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Introduction
I.1 Spermatogenesis
I.2 Length of Spermatogenesis in Domestic Species
I.3 Maturation of Spermatozoa in the Epididymis
I.4 Staining Techniques and Evaluation of Morphology
I.5 Vital Staining
I.6 Preparation of Semen Smears or Coverslip Slides
I.7 Differential Counting of Sperm Morphology
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Section I: Head Abnormalities
1 Pyriform and Tapered Heads
2 Nuclear Vacuolation, Including the Diadem Defect
3 Macrocephalic and Microcephalic Sperm
4 Rolled Head–Nuclear Crest–Giant Head Syndrome
5 Abnormal DNA Condensation
6 Acrosome Abnormalities
7 Normal Detached Heads and Free Abnormal Heads
8 Decapitated Sperm Defect
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Section II: Midpiece Abnormalities
9 Proximal Cytoplasmic Droplet
10 Pseudodroplet
11 Mitochondrial Sheath Defects
12 Corkscrew Sperm Defect
13 Dag Defect
14 Distal Midpiece Reflex
15 Bowed Midpieces
16 Distal Droplets
17 Abaxial Midpieces
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Section III: Tail (Principal Piece) Abnormalities
18 Tail Stump Defect
19 Coiled Principal Pieces
20 Double Forms and Accessory Tails
21 Bent Principal Pieces
22 Short Tail Defect
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Section IV: Aberrations of Stains and Other Cells in the Ejaculate
23 Aberrations Due to Staining
24 Aberrations Due to Cold Shock
25 Round Cells in the Ejaculate
26 Teratoids
27 Medussa “Cells”
28 Aberrations of Semen Quality
28.1 Oligospermia/Azoospermia
28.2 Hemospermia
28.3 Urospermia
28.4 Antisperm Antibodies
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References
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Index
List of Tables 1 IntroductionTable I.1 Mean time of sperm epididymal passage in domestic List of Illustrations 1 IntroductionFigure I.1 Morphologically normal sperm from a bull (eosin–nigrosin, 1000×)....Figure I.2 Morphologically normal sperm from a bull (phase contrast wet moun...Figure I.3 Morphologically normal sperm from a buck (eosin–nigrosin, 1000×)....Figure I.4 Morphologically normal sperm from a stallion (eosin–nigrosin, 100...Figure I.5 Partially stained sperm with a pink posterior and a white anterio...Figure I.6 Poorly prepared slide with too many sperm per field, which impede...Figure I.7 A small line of stain is placed along the slide followed by a sma...Figure I.8 Using a second slide, one can start in the stain backing up to pi...Figure I.9 Slides should neither be too dark or too light, and when viewed u... 2 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Pyriform head in a bull (eosin–nigrosin, 1000×).Figure 1.2 Pyriform head in a bull as indicated by arrow (eosin–nigrosin, 10...Figure 1.3 Pyriform head in a bull as indicated by arrow (eosin–nigrosin, 10...Figure 1.4 Detached pyriform head in a bull indicated by arrow (eosin–nigros...Figure 1.5 Pyriform head in bull as indicated by arrow (eosin–nigrosin, 1000...Figure 1.6 Pyriform head in a bull as indicated by arrow (eosin–nigrosin, 10...Figure 1.7 Pyriform head in bull as indicated by arrow also note the proxima...Figure 1.8 Pyriform head in a bull (eosin–nigrosin, 1000×).Figure 1.9 Pyriform head in a ram (eosin–nigrosin, 1000×).Figure 1.10 Pyriform head in a bull (eosin–nigrosin, 1000×).Figure 1.11 Pyriform head defect in a bull as indicated by arrow compared to...Figure 1.12 Pyriform‐shaped head in a bull with proximal droplet (phase cont... 3 Chapter
