Pregnancy rates in mares following hysteroscopic or transrectally-guided insemination with low sperm numbers at the utero-tubal papilla

Theriogenology

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 1001-1009

  Brinsko, Steven P ^a,b   Rigby, Sherri L ^a   Lindsey, Allison C ^c   Blanchard, Terry L ^a   Love, Charles C ^a   Varner, Dickson D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c XY Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Equine; Hysteroscopy; Insemination; Oviductal papilla; Prostaglandin E2

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORSE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DINOPROSTONE; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HORSES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTION; SPERM COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERUS;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0037303817     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(02)01123-8     Document Type: Article

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