Fertility of spermatozoa cryopreserved with 2% acetamide or glycerol through artificial insemination in the Japanese white rabbit

Experimental Animals

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-34

  Okuda, Yasushi ^a,b   Seita, Yasunari ^a   Hisamatsu, Shin ^a   Sonoki, Shigenori ^a   Shino, Masao ^a   Masaoka, Toshio ^a   Inomata, Tomo ^a   Kamijo, Shin Ichi ^b   Kashiwazaki, Naomi ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI KAGAKU INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetamide; Fertility; Glycerol; Japanese white rabbits; Sperm cryopreservation

Indexed keywords

ACETAMIDE; GLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; FREEZING; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; THAWING;

ACETAMIDES; ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GLYCEROL; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; RABBITS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 33847620731     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.56.29     Document Type: Article

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