Boar fertility and sperm chromatin structure status: A retrospective report

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 655-660

  Didion, Bradley A ^a   Kasperson, Kay M ^b   Wixon, Regina L ^c   Evenson, Donald P ^c  

^a Minitube of America   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SCSA Diagnostics   (United States)

Author keywords

SCSA; Semen analysis; Sperm DNA fragmentation

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BOAR (MALE PIG); CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GILT (SWINE); MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOW (SWINE); SPERM;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE;

EID: 71949101838     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.108.006254     Document Type: Article

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