Additional dietary calcium fed to Barred Plymouth Rock roosters reduces blood cholesterol, elevates seminal calcium, and enhances sperm motility, thermo-tolerance and cryosurvivability

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 120, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 158-165

  Kanyinji, Francisco ^a   Maeda, Teruo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Additional dietary calcium; Cryosurvivability; Sperm thermo tolerance

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHOLESTEROL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CALCIUM INTAKE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TEMPERATURE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM, DIETARY; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICKENS; CHOLESTEROL; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; MALE; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; TEMPERATURE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77954862956     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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