Normospermic Versus Teratospermic Domestic Cat Sperm Chromatin Integrity Evaluated by Flow Cytometry and Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1730-1735

  Penfold, Linda M ^a,c   Jost, Lorna ^b   Evenson, Donald P ^b   Wildt, David E ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WHITE OAK CONSERVATION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Gamete biology; In vitro fertilization; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CATS; CHROMATIN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; OOCYTES; OVARY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0242267083     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.016089     Document Type: Article

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