Prostasome-like particles in stallion semen

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 309-313

  Arienti, Giuseppe ^a   Carlini, Enrico ^a   De Cosmo, Attilio M ^b   Di Profio, Pietro ^a   Palmerini, Carlo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CHOLESTEROL; LIPOPROTEIN; SPHINGOMYELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HORSE; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTASOME; PROSTATE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; HORSES; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SEMEN; SEMINAL VESICLES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0031879845     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.2.309     Document Type: Article

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