Fertility and its relationship to motility characteristics of spermatozoa in ewes after cervical, transcervical, and intrauterine insemination with frozen-thawed ram semen

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 280-288

  Sánchez Partida, L Gabriel ^a,e   Windsor, David P ^b   Eppleston, Jeff ^c   Setchell, Brian P ^a   Maxwell, W M Chisholm ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AI; CASA; Cryopreservation; Glycine betaine; Proline; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; FEMALE; FREEZING; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THAWING; UTERINE CERVIX;

ANIMALS; CERVIX UTERI; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETAL DEATH; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY RATE; SHEEP; SPERM MOTILITY; UTERUS;

EID: 0345189505     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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