Levels of antioxidant defenses are decreased in bovine spermatozoa after a cycle of freezing and thawing

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 282-288

  Bilodeau, Jean François ^a   Chatterjee, Suvro ^a   Sirard, Marc André ^b   Gagnon, Claude ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bovine spermatozoa; Catalase; Cryopreservation; Glutathione; Glutathione peroxidase; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CATTLE; CELL TYPE; CONTAMINATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; FERTILIZATION; FREEZING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM PRESERVATION; THAWING;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CATALASE; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EGG YOLK; FREEZING; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLYCEROL; MALE; SEMEN; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0033964940     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(200003)55:3<282::AID-MRD6>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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