Relationship between sperm-zona pellucida binding assays and the 56-day nonreturn rate of cattle inseminated with frozen-thawed bull semen

Theriogenology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 853-863

  Fazeli, A R ^a,d   Zhang, B R ^b   Steenweg, W ^c   Larsson, B ^b   Bevers, M M ^a   Van Den Broek, J ^a   Rodriguez Martinez, H ^b   Colenbrander, B ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bull; Fertility; Spermatozoa; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FREEZING; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; THAWING; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0031251922     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(97)00310-5     Document Type: Article

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