The quantification of lipid and protein oxidation in stallion spermatozoa and seminal plasma: Seasonal distinctions and correlations with DNA strand breaks, classical seminal parameters and stallion fertility

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 36-47

  Morte, Maria Inês ^a,b   Rodrigues, Ana Margarida ^b   Soares, Diana ^b   Rodrigues, Ana Sofia ^a,b   Gamboa, Sandra ^b   Ramalho Santos, João ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Equine; Fertility; Lipid peroxidation; Oxidative stress; Protein oxidation; Seasonality; Seminal plasma; Sperm

Indexed keywords

LIPID; PROTEIN;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FERTILITY; GENETICS; HORSE; MALE; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; BREEDING; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; FERTILITY; HORSES; LIPIDS; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEINS; SEASONS; SEMEN; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 41549114579     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2007.03.020     Document Type: Article

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