Relationship between heparin binding to spermatozoa and the fertility of dairy bulls

Theriogenology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1249-1258

  Merkies, K ^a,b   Larsson, B ^a   Kjellen L ^a   Zhang, B R ^a   Buhr, M M ^b   Rodriguez Martinez H ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bull fertility; Heparin binding; Radioimmunoassay

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEPARIN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRITIUM;

EID: 0034331898     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(00)00431-3     Document Type: Article

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