Effect of intrauterine treatment with prostaglandin E2 prior to insemination of mares in the uterine horn or body

Theriogenology

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1827-1836

  Woods, J ^a   Rigby, S ^a   Brinsko, S ^a   Stephens, R ^a   Varner, D ^a   Blanchard, T ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Pregnancy; Prostaglandin E2; Stallion

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORSE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PALPATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; UTERUS; UTERUS HORN;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DINOPROST; DINOPROSTONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HORSES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN; SPERM MOTILITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERUS;

EID: 0034209848     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(00)00318-6     Document Type: Article

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