The use of the acridine orange test and the TUNEL assay to assess the integrity of freeze-dried bovine spermatozoa DNA

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 94-104

  Martins, C F ^a,b   Dode, M N ^a   Bao S N ^b   Rumpf, R ^a  

^a EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acridine orange test; Bovine; Conservation; DNA; Freeze drying sperm; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COW; DNA DAMAGE; FREEZE DRYING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMATIN; COLORING AGENTS; DNA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FREEZE DRYING; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOA; STAINING AND LABELING;

BOVINAE;

EID: 34248352189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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