Various physical stress factors on rat sperm motility, integrity of acrosome, and plasma membrane

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-86

  Varisli, Omer ^a   Uguz, Cevdet ^b   Agca, Cansu ^c   Agca, Yuksel ^c  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrifugation; Percoll gradient; Pipetting

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SEPARATION; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PIPETTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHEEP; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWINE;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTRIFUGATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SHEEP; SPERM MOTILITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWINE;

EID: 58149289584     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.107.004333     Document Type: Article

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