| Abstract: | The clinical effect of the bilateral intratesticular administration of a microcrystalline water suspension of testosterone was studied in ten boars of Duroc breed exhibiting semen quality disorders. The ejaculate quality disorders included separate or combined deviations of the values of sperm concentration (hypozoospermia to oligozoospermia), sperm activity (asthenozoospermia), or the occurrence of abnormal spermatozoa (teratozoospermia) from the spermiological standard. After intratesticular infiltration, all the criteria of spermiogram were completely restored in four cases and the boars could be returned to insemination use. A partial improvement of the spermiogram (the number of spermiological criteria with positive responses and the development of their values) without fully meeting all the requirements of the spermiological standard was recorded in four breeding boars. No positive response of ejaculate quality characteristics was obtained in two boars. As to the evaluated criteria of the spermiogram, sperm activity was the most frequent positively influenced parameter in the cases of idiopathic or combined asthenozoospermia, and the increased percentage of abnormal spermatozoa was the least frequent positively influenced parameter in the cases of idiopathic or combined teratozoospermia. It is supposed that the easily practicable methods of intratesticular infiltration with a microcrystalline testosterone suspension could expand the therapeutic possibilities available to veterinary andrologists in the treatment of ejaculate quality disorders in boars. |
