Seminal immunoreactive relaxin in domestic animals and its relationship to sperm motility as a possible index for predicting the fertilizing ability of sires

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-120

  Kohsaka, Tetsuya ^a   Hamano, K ^b   Sasada, H ^c   Watanabe, S ^d   Ogine, T ^e   Suzuki, E ^f   Nishida, S ^f   Takahara, H ^g   Sato, E ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL VETERINARY ASSAY LABORATORY   (Japan)

^e Ctrl Res Inst Feed Livestock Z   (Japan)

^f Miyagi Prefectural Animal Industry Experiment Station   (Japan)

^g IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Domestic animals; Motility; Relaxin; Seminal plasma; Sperm

Indexed keywords

RELAXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY; GOAT; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SHEEP; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FERTILITY; FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY; GOATS; HUMANS; MALE; RELAXIN; SEMEN; SHEEP; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 0037384189     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2605.2003.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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