Para-chloroamphetamine (PCA)-induced ejaculation in aged rats, semen analysis and artificial insemination

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 332-336

  Saito, Toru R ^a   Hokao, Ryoji ^b   Wakafuji, Yasumasa ^b   Igarashi, Noriyuki ^b   Agematsu, Yoshio ^b   Takahashi, Kazuaki W ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Imamichi Institute for Animal Reproduction   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged rats; Artificial insemination; Para chloroamphetamine (PCA) induced ejaculation; Sperm motility and counts

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029828839     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367796780739844     Document Type: Article

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