Addition of Seminal Plasma to Post-thawing Equine Semen: What is the Effect on Sperm Cell Viability?

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 682-686

  de Andrade, A F C ^a   Zaffalon, F G ^a   Celeghini, E C C ^a   Nascimento, J ^a   Tarrago O F B ^a   Martins, S M M K ^a   Alonso, M A ^a   Arruda, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; HORSE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; HORSES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 79960198197     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2010.01729.x     Document Type: Article

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