Effects of dilution and centrifugation on the survival of spermatozoa and the structure of motile sperm cell subpopulations in refrigerated Catalonian donkey semen

Theriogenology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1017-1022

  Miro J ^a   Taberner, E ^a   Rivera, M ^a   Pena A ^a   Medrano, A ^a   Rigau, T ^a   Penalba A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cooled semen; Donkey; Seminal plasma; Sperm subpopulations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FREEZING; HORSE; MALE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CENTRIFUGATION; EQUIDAE; MALE; REFRIGERATION; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOA;

EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 70349472921     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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