Effects of filtration through Sephadex columns improve overall quality parameters and "in vivo" fertility of subfertile refrigerated boar-semen

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 115, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 189-200

  Ramio Lluch L ^a   Balasch, S ^b   Bonet, S ^c   Briz, M ^c   Pinart, E ^c   Rodriguez Gil J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Servicios Genéticos Porcinos SL ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boar sperm; Semen quality; Sephadex filtration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; EJACULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; EJACULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; SEMEN; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

SUIDAE;

EID: 67749143734     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2008.12.015     Document Type: Article

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