Karl C. Kerns

Abstract Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death characterized by labile iron accumulation, glutathione depletion, mitochondrial dysfunction, and lipid peroxidation. Although ferroptosis has been linked to impaired spermatogenesis and male infertility in vivo, its occurrence and functional relevance in ejaculated spermatozoa during liquid semen storage at 17 °C has not been established.

Open AccessArticle by Michal Zigo 1,*, Karl Kerns 1,2 and Peter Sutovsky 2,3 1 Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA 2 Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA 3 Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

3 CAPACITATION EVALUATION AS A PREDICTOR OF BOAR FERTILITY Using capacitation ability as a predictor of boar conception rate and increased litter sizes might be promising since other metrics thus far have shown limited correlations. All sperm cells must undergo capacitation before they are able to fertilize an oocyte.