Effect of Pre-freeze Addition of Cysteine Hydrochloride and Reduced Glutathione in Semen of Crossbred Jersey Bulls on Sperm Parameters and Conception Rates

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 636-641

  Perumal, P ^a   Selvaraju, S ^b   Selvakumar, S ^c   Barik, A K ^a   Mohanty, D N ^a   Das, S ^a   Das, R K ^a   Mishra, P C ^a  

^a ORISSA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b ICAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL NUTRITION AND PHYSIOLOGY   (India)

^c Sugarcane Breeding Research Institute   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FREEZING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; TIME;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; FREEZING; GLUTATHIONE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; PREGNANCY; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960187390     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2010.01719.x     Document Type: Article

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