Polymyxin B neutralizes bacteria-released endotoxin and improves the quality of boar sperm during liquid storage and cryopreservation

Theriogenology

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1691-1700

  Okazaki, Tetsuji ^a,b   Mihara, Toshihiro ^a   Fujita, Youko ^a   Yoshida, Shuji ^b   Teshima, Hisanori ^b   Shimada, Masayuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Oita Prefectural Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial insemination; Bacterial infection; Endotoxin; Innate immune function; Seminal plasma

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; POLYMYXIN B; PROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHEMISTRY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; POLYMYXIN B; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 78049299531     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2010.05.019     Document Type: Article

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