
%0 Journal Article
%A Brown-Woodman, PDC 
%A White, IG 
%T Disruption of the Metabolism, Motility and Morphology of Spermatozoa by Injection of a-Chlorohydrin Into Rams
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1976/12/01
%V 29
%N 6
%P 545-556
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9760545
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9760545 
%X Ejaculated spermatozoa from rams given intramuscular injections of <x-chlorohydrin (25 mg/kg, daily for 5 days) were studied. Respiratory and glycolytic activity of the spermatozoa was almost entirely suppressed within 1 day and motility had decreased within 4 days of the first injection. Morphologically abnormal spermatozoa appeared in ejaculates after 2 weeks. The most common abnormality was an increase in the number of spermatozoa with looped or bent tails. There was little change in the fructose or amino acid concentration of the seminal plasma. All effects of <x-chlorohydrin were fully reversible. It is suggested that the initial primary mode of action of <x-chlorohydrin is to disrupt the metabolism of spermatozoa in the cauda epididymis. 
