Scrotal heat stress induces altered sperm chromatin structure associated with a decrease in protamine disulfide bonding in the stallion

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 615-620

  Love, Charles C ^a,b   Kenney, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA DENATURATION; DNA DETERMINATION; HEAT STRESS; HORSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0032992028     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.3.615     Document Type: Article

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