Abstract
Two washing procedures were used on spermatozoa to test the effect of centrifugation on immunofluorescent staining. The rapidly centrifuged spermatozoa often exhibited a loss of acrosomal but an increase in tail antigenicity. A standard technique of sperm preparation for immunofluorescence is recommended in order to have reliable and comparable results.
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