CARD Rat Freezing Kit

Cosmo Bio LTD

Catalog No: KYD-GAR-001

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RAT SPERM FREEZING KIT	Available Sizes / Cat.
CARD Rat Sperm Freezing Kit is hardware accessory that facilitates the production of high-quality frozen rat sperm during cryopreservation with CARD FERTIUP® Rat Sperm Cryopreservation Agent. The kit contains a sperm straw holding plate and a foam float for the holding plate. Together, they permit sperm-filled sperm straws to be floated just above the liquid in a container of liquid nitrogen, in order to control the freezing rate prior to full immersion in a liquid nitrogen tank. Similarly, the tray and float can also be used to float sperm straws above liquid nitrogen during the rat sperm thawing procedure.	1 Kit Kit Components: 1) sperm straw support plate 2) styrofoam float for support plate (sperm straws and reagents not included)	KYD-GAR-001

CARD Rat Sperm Freezing Kit (Cat No. KYD-GAR-001)

CARD Rat Sperm Freezing Kit is a kit that facilitates the effective production of high-quality frozen rat sperm during rat sperm cryopreservation using CARD FERTIUP® Rat Sperm Cryopreservation Agent. With this kit, researchers can appropriately carry out the rat sperm cooling process during rat sperm cryopreservation.

Rat sperm cryopreservation techniques - Development background

Rats are widely used in medical and life science research. In recent years, various strains of genetically modified rat have been produced worldwide thanks to the development of genome editing technologies. Moreover, it is predicted that even more genetically modified rats will be produced in the future. Therefore, there is a pressing need for effective preservation techniques for these genetically modified rat strains. Through sperm freezing, it is possible to quickly cryopreserve a large number of sperm taken from the cauda epididymis of a male rat. For this reason, sperm cryopreservation is expected to be an easier, more effective and most economically viable technique for the preservation of genetically modified rat strains than embryo cryopreservation. However, rat sperm is vulnerable to the effects of physical changes to pH, osmotic pressure, temperature and other similar factors. Moreover, it is difficult to maintain the motility of frozen-thawed sperm via conventional sperm cryopreservation methods, which means that it is not viable to use these sperm in in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Therefore, the establishment of rat sperm cryopreservation and rat IVF techniques was required to solve these issues. A research team led by Dr. Naomi Nakagata and Dr. Toru Takeo at the Institute of Resource Development and Analysis, Kumamoto University have developed a practical rat sperm cryopreservation technique and an IVF method using frozenthawed rat sperm. These techniques may offer a solution to the problem of genetically modified rat strain preservation.

As a result of joint research carried out by ourselves and Kumamoto University, we have developed a number of reagents for use in rat reproductive engineering.

 

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