Cryopreservation of bull semen shipped overnight and its effect on post-thaw sperm motility, plasma membrane integrity, mitochondrial membrane potential and normal acrosomes

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 23-31

  Anzar, M ^a   Kroetsch, T ^b   Boswall, L ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b Semex Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bull; Cryopreservation; Semen; Shipping; Sperm quality

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYOPRESERVATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TIME; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYOPRESERVATION; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERM MOTILITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80955179525     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2011.04.018     Document Type: Article

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