Water transport in epididymal and ejaculated rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) sperm during freezing

Cryobiology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 182-185

  Alapati, Raghava ^a   Goff, Kelly ^b   Kubisch, Hans Michael ^b   Devireddy, Ram V ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential scanning calorimetry; Freezing storage; Membrane permeability; Water transport

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; GLYCEROL; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FREEZING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; WATER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SIZE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GLYCEROL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERMATOZOA; WATER;

MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 52149120743     PISSN: 00112240     EISSN: 10902392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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