Seminal plasma proteins do not consistently improve fertility after cervical insemination of ewes with non-sorted or sex-sorted frozenthawed ram spermatozoa

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 606-612

  Leahy, T ^a   Evans, G ^a   Maxwell, W M C ^a   Marti, J I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Agrifood Institute of Aragón IA2   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Pregnancy rate; Sex preselection; Sheep

Indexed keywords

SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EWE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FREEZING; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE; RAM (SHEEP); SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUPPLEMENTATION; THAWING; UTERINE CERVIX; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEX PRESELECTION; SHEEP; SPERMATOZOA;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77950616756     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD09207     Document Type: Article

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