Antioxidant status of the lower oviduct in the chicken varies with age and dietary vitamin E supplementation

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1045-1051

  Breque, Christelle ^a   Surai, Peter ^b   Brillard, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

^b SAC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Lipid peroxidation; Oviduct; Sperm; Sperm storage tubules

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHICKEN; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; UTERINE TUBE; VAGINA; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CHICKENS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; OVIDUCTS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VITAMIN E;

AVES;

EID: 33745699590     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20498     Document Type: Article

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