The influence of macro- and microelements in seminal plasma on diluted boar sperm quality

Table 4 Correlations (r value) between sperm quality characteristics on day 0 and sperm quality characteristics after 3 days of storage (n = 20)

Day 0	Day 3
Day 0	Motility	Progressive motility	Normal sperm morphology	Acrosome reacted spermatozoa	Dead spermatozoa	Apoptotic spermatozoa	Intact DNA	Impaired tail membrane integrity
Motility	0.504*	0.466*	0.036	−0.415	−0.357	0.136	0.327	−0.469*
Progressive motility	0.498*	0.384	0.140	−0.147	−0.458*	−0.560*	0.554*	−0.372
Normal sperm morphology	0.325	0.367	0.794*	−0.444*	−0.234	−0.245	0.111	−0.476*
Proximal droplets	−0.212	−0.337	−0.465	−0.166	0.000	0.165	−0.038	0.270
Distal droplets	−0.193	−0.084	−0.153	0.090	0.311	0.099	0.040	0.063
Capacitated spermatozoa	0.138	0.243	0.494*	−0.471*	−0.501*	0.421	0.613*	−0.573*
Impaired tail membrane integrity	−0.027	−0.129	−0.380	0.371	−0.093	0.183	−0.485*	0.242
Live spermatozoa	0.582*	0.502*	−0.011	−0.119	−0.007	−0.322	−0.274	0.150
Apoptotic spermatozoa	−0.392	−0.474*	−0.304	0.072	−0.145	0.494*	−0.652*	−0.284
Decreased mitochondrial potential	−0.027	−0.129	−0.380	0.371	−0.093	0.183	−0.485*	−0.027
Intact DNA	0.342	0.500*	0.199	−0.347	−0.340	−0.571*	0.946*	−0.618*

Only sperm quality characteristics that showed at least one correlation are included in the table
*P values <0.05

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