Premature capacitation of frozen-thawed spermatozoa from subfertile Japanese Black cattle

Journal of Reproduction and Development

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1079-1086

  Kuroda, Ken ^a   Fukushima, Moriyuki ^b   Harayama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b General Technological Center of Hyogo Prefecture for Agriculture   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bull; Capacitation; Chlortetracycline (CTC); In vitro fertilization (IVF); Subfertility

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; OOCYTES; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

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EID: 36049040776     PISSN: 09168818     EISSN: 13484400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1262/jrd.19031     Document Type: Article

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