Cellular biophysics during freezing of rat and mouse sperm predicts post-thaw motility

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 700-706

  Hagiwara, Mie ^c   Choi, Jeung Hwan ^c   Devireddy, Ramachandra V ^d   Roberts, Kenneth P ^b   Wolkers, Willem F ^a   Makhlouf, Antoine ^c   Bischof, John C ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; DSC; Motility; Mouse sperm; Rat sperm

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FREEZING; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; RAT; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZING; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; WATER;

EID: 74049129375     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.076075     Document Type: Article

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