Comparison of motility and membrane integrity to assess rat sperm viability

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 105-114

  Vetter, Christine M ^a   Miller, Judith E ^a   Crawford, Lisa M ^a   Armstrong, Michael J ^a   Clair, James H ^a   Conner, Michael W ^a   Wise, L David ^a   Skopek, Thomas R ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

chlorhyrin (ACH); Computer assisted semen analysis (CASA); Dibromoacetic acid (DBAA); Flow cytometry; Propidium iodide (PI); Sperm; SYBR 14; Viability

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALPHA CHLOROHYDRIN; MALE CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SPERMICIDAL AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIBROMOACETIC ACID; DRUG EFFECT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VAS DEFERENS;

ACETIC ACIDS; ALPHA-CHLOROHYDRIN; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; RATS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM IMMOBILIZING AGENTS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032034140     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6238(97)00155-X     Document Type: Article

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