Media and dilution procedures tested to minimize handling effects on human, rabbit, and bull sperm for computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA)

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 293-300

  Farrell, Paul B ^a   Foote, Robert H ^a   McArdle, Margaret M ^a   Trouern Trend, Victoria L ^a   Tardif, Angela L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

CASA; holding time; hyperactivation; PBS; TALP

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EJACULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDICATOR DILUTION TECHNIQUES; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MALE; RABBITS; SEMEN; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERM COUNT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030010637     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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