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What is ICSI ? (Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection)

Many advantages

What is the principle of ICSI treatment ?

What is ICSI?

Intra Cytoplasmatic Sperm Injection or ICSI is a medically assisted reproduction process whereby a single sperm cell is injected into the centre of an egg cell, this means that  fertilisation takes place occurs artificially.  


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The benefits of ICSI

  • EFFICIENT BREEDING AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.
  • A SOLUTION FOR FERTILITY ISSUES AND/OR OLDER MARES.
  • ICSI IS SUITABLE FOR ALL MARES ALL YEAR ROUND.
  • IDEAL FOR TOP STALLIONS WITH RARE OR VALUABLE SEMEN SUCH AS CHACCO BLUE, HEARTBREAKER, CUMANO, CATOKI, UNITED TOUCH, …
  • EMBRYO SEXING + THE POSSIBILITY OF MULTIPLE EMBRYOS PER CYCLE.
  • YOU DECIDE WHEN THE EMBRYO IS IMPLANTED AND WHEN THE FOAL IS BORN.
  • CREATE YOUR OWN DREAM COMBINATION AND PRESERVE UNIQUE BLOODLINES — AN INVESTMENT IN THE GENETIC FUTURE.
  • THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN EQUINE REPRODUCTION.

ICSI: more certainty, more opportunities, and a future for a profitable breeding operation, for breeders who leave nothing to chance

The ICSI operating process

1

OPU treatment

The mare is transported to the clinic where the OPU treatment takes place
For this treatment, the mare is put under epidural sedation in order to puncture follicles, making it possible to extract several egg cells.

 

Stap 2

2

Examination

Afterwards, the eggs that have been extracted are examined in a laboratory to see which are qualitatively suitable to be used for ICSI treatment. On average, 60% of the egg cells obtained by this method are normally usable.

 

Stap 3

3

Storage

The usable egg cells are then transported to Italy.
The reason why the egg cells are sent to Italy is because Italy is where all the exclusive frozen semen is stored.

 

Stap 4

4

Maturing

In Italy, a special liquid is added to ensure that the egg cells start maturing. Once this has taken place the egg cells can then be injected with sperm cells which have been selected for this purpose.