Autologous whole ram seminal plasma and its vesicle-free fraction improve motility characteristics and membrane status but not in vivo fertility of frozen-thawed ram spermatozoa

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 541-549

  El Hajj Ghaoui, R ^a   Thomson, P C ^a   Leahy, T ^a   Evans, G ^a   Maxwell, W M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZATION; SHEEP; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TIME; UTERINE CERVIX;

ANIMALS; CERVIX UTERI; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SHEEP; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548577217     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2006.00819.x     Document Type: Article

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