Fatty acid profiles of ram's sperm after removing some fatty acid sources from the diets and persistency of fatty acids in sperm

International Journal of Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 211-216

  Esmaeili, Vahid ^a,b   Shahverdi, Abdolhossein ^a   Alizadeh, Ali Reza ^b   Alipour, Hiva ^a   Towhidi, Armin ^c   Zarrabi, Morteza ^a  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fatty acids; Ovine; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACID; FISH OIL; LINOLEIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; PALMITIC ACID; SUNFLOWER OIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; RAM (SHEEP); SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON;

EID: 84863465691     PISSN: 2008076X     EISSN: 20080778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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