Studies on the development of diluents for the transportation and storage of human semen rat ambient temperature

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2186-2196

  Aitken, R J ^a   Allan, I W ^a,b   Irvine, D S ^a   Macnamee, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Bourn Hall Clinic ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citrate egg yolk buffers; Lipid peroxidation; Pentoxifylline; Semen storage; Semen transportation

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CITRIC ACID; PENTOXIFYLLINE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG YOLK; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HAMSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OOCYTE; OSMOLALITY; PEROXIDATION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 0029823068     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019074     Document Type: Article

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