'In Vitro' Capacitation and Acrosome Reaction are Concomitant with Specific Changes in Mitochondrial Activity in Boar Sperm: Evidence for a Nucleated Mitochondrial Activation and for the Existence of a Capacitation-Sensitive Subpopulational Structure

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 664-673

  Ramio Lluch L ^a   Fernandez Novell J M ^b   Pena A ^a   Colas C ^c   Cebrian Perez J A ^c   Muino Blanco T ^c   Ramirez A ^d   Concha, I I ^d   Rigau, T ^a   Rodriguez Gil J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SWINE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROGESTERONE; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE;

SUIDAE;

EID: 79960189789     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2010.01725.x     Document Type: Article

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