Effects of different artificial insemination techniques and sperm doses on fertility of normal mares and mares with abnormal reproductive history

Theriogenology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 915-928

  Sieme, H ^a,b   Bonk, A ^b   Hamann, H ^b   Klug, E ^b   Katila, T ^c  

^a National Stud Lower Saxony   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fresh semen; Frozen semen; Hysteroscopic insemination; Low dose insemination; Pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HORSE; HYSTEROSCOPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HORSES; HYSTEROSCOPY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; RECTUM; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; UTERUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 3142577073     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2003.12.011     Document Type: Article

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