Infertility in a beef bull due to a failure in the capacitation process

Theriogenology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 891-899

  Lessard, C ^a   Siqueira, L G ^b   D'Amours, O ^c   Sullivan, R ^c   Leclerc, P ^c   Palmer, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absence of fertilization; Bovine infertility; Capacitation; Sperm morphology; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROTEINS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA;

BOVINAE;

EID: 80051684097     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2011.04.020     Document Type: Article

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