Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of boar seminal plasma. Problems encountered in the identification of small molecules: Hypotaurine and carnitine

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 341-347

  Kalic, Marianne ^a   Kamp, Günter ^a   Lauterwein, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fertility; Heteronuclear multiple bond correlation; Heteronuclear single quantum correlation; NMR; Seminal plasma

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE; HYPOTAURINE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEMINAL PLASMA; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CARNITINE; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; SEMEN; SWINE; TAURINE;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031473358     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1492(199710)10:7<341::AID-NBM464>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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