Successful long-term preservation of rat sperm by freeze-drying

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kaneko, Takehito ^a   Serikawa, Tadao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMIDE; EDETIC ACID; TROMETAMOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PH; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; RAT; SPERM PRESERVATION; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; FERTILITY; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIAMIDE; EDETIC ACID; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FREEZE DRYING; MALE; RATS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; TROMETHAMINE;

EID: 84859480799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035043     Document Type: Article

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