Application of techniques for sperm selection in fresh and frozen-thawed stallion semen

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 134-140

  Sieme, Harald ^a,b,e   Martinsson, G ^b   Rauterberg, H ^b   Walter, K ^b   Aurich, C ^c   Petzoldt, R ^d   Klug, E ^b  

^a National Stud Lower Saxony   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e Niedersachsisches Landgestut Celle   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; GLASS; GLASS FIBER; SEPHADEX;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CENTRIFUGATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FILTRATION; HORSE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CENTRIFUGATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FILTRATION; GLASS; HORSES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0037389805     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0531.2003.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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