Sperm Cell Population Dynamics in Ram Semen during the Cryopreservation Process

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ramón, Manuel ^a   Pérez Guzmán, M Dolores ^a   Jiménez Rabadán, Pilar ^a   Esteso, Milagros C ^b   García Álvarez, Olga ^c   Maroto Morales, Alejandro ^c   Anel López, Luis ^c   Soler, Ana J ^c   Fernández Santos, M Rocío ^c   Garde, J Julián ^c  

^a CERSYRA Junta de Comunidades de Castilla La Mancha ^*  (Spain)

^b INIA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL POPULATION; CELL VIABILITY; COLD TOLERANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EJACULATION; FREEZE THAWING; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAM (SHEEP); SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CRYOPRESERVATION; MALE; SEMEN; SHEEP; SPERM HEAD; SPERMATOCYTES;

EID: 84875446497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059189     Document Type: Article

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