Seasonal changes in semen characteristics, composition of seminal plasma and frequency of acrosome reaction induced by calcium and calcium ionophore A23187 in large white boars

Journal of Reproduction and Development

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 853-865

  Murase, Tetsuma ^a   Imaeda, Noriaki ^b   Yamada, Hiroto ^b   Miyazawa, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Gifu Prefectural Livestock Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrosomal stabilizing protein; Acrosome reaction; Boar; Seasonal infertility; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ALBUMINOID; CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; IONOPHORE; SODIUM;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FERTILITY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SPERM; SWINE; TEMPERATURE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM; CHLORIDES; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY, MALE; IONOPHORES; MALE; SEASONS; SEMEN; SODIUM; SUS SCROFA; TEMPERATURE;

PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 34548587260     PISSN: 09168818     EISSN: 13484400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1262/jrd.19026     Document Type: Article

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