Microeneapsulation of Bull Sperm Cells: Theoretical and Methodical Aspects

Microeneapsulation of living cells from animals, plants and micro-organisms is a common used technique in biotechnology. In the case different efforts were undertaken to apply this technique in artificial insemination (WATSON, 1993). The advantages of the encapsulation are: reducing the loss of cells during manipulation procedures, administration of specific microenvironment conditions inside the microcapsulae. So under the point of insemination these techniques are mostly interesting in the case low numbers of sperm cells, large volumes of inseminates, specific techniques and for research work.