Sperm migration into and through the oviduct following artificial insemination at different stages of the estrous cycle in the rat

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 908-913

  Orihuela, Pedro A ^a   Ortiz, María E ^a   Croxatto, Horacio B ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL CIPIONATE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL MIGRATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032982328     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.4.908     Document Type: Article

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