Good and bad freezability boar ejaculates differ in the integrity of nucleoprotein structure after freeze-thawing but not in ROS levels

Theriogenology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 929-939

  Yeste, Marc ^a   Estrada, Efrén ^a   Casas, Isabel ^b   Bonet, Sergi ^c   Rodríguez Gil, Joan Enric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boar sperm; Cryopreservation; Freezability; ROS; Sperm nucleus

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM PRESERVATION; SWINE;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; NUCLEOPROTEINS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SWINE;

SUIDAE;

EID: 84875246198     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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