A practical in vitro sperm-egg binding assay that detects subfertile males

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 686-699

  Barbato, G F ^a   Cramer, P G ^a   Hammerstedt, R H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL INTERACTION; CHICKEN; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FERTILIZATION; HORSE; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBFERTILITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHICKENS; DNA; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORSES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POULTRY DISEASES; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; TURKEYS; VITELLINE MEMBRANE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS; POTATO VIRUS M;

EID: 0031905940     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.3.686     Document Type: Article

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