Effects of centrifugation through three different discontinuous Percoll gradients on boar sperm function

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 62-72

  Matas C ^a   Vieira, L ^a   Garcia Vazquez F A ^a   Aviles Lopez K ^a   Lopez Ubeda R ^a   Carvajal, J A ^a   Gadea, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capacitation; Density gradient; Fertility; Pig; Sperm selection; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

PERCOLL; POVIDONE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NICK END LABELING; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; POVIDONE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE;

SUIDAE;

EID: 80052743997     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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