Fertility comparison between breeding at 24 hours or at 24 and 48 hours after collection with cooled equine semen

Theriogenology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 693-698

  Shore, M D ^a,b   Macpherson, M L ^a,c   Combes, G B ^a   Varner, D D ^a   Blanchard, T L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial insemination; Cooled semen; Equine; Fertility; Spermatozoa; Storage

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORSE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TIME; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COLD; DINOPROST; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORSES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0032190992     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(98)00174-5     Document Type: Article

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