Cryopreservation of equine sperm: Optimal cooling rates in the presence and absence of cryoprotective agents determined using differential scanning calorimetry

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 222-231

  Devireddy, R V ^a   Swanlund, D J ^a   Olin, T ^a   Vincente, W ^a   Troedsson, M H T ^a   Bischof, J C ^a   Roberts, K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamete biology; Reproductive technology; Sperm

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FREEZING; HORSE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0036136444     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod66.1.222     Document Type: Article

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