Osmotic stress and membrane phase changes during freezing of stallion sperm: Mode of action of cryoprotective agents

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Oldenhof, Harriëtte ^a   Gojowsky, Marina ^a,b   Wang, Shangping ^c   Henke, Samantha ^a   Yu, Chaojie ^c   Rohn, Karl ^a   Wolkers, Willem F ^c   Sieme, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b National Stud Lower Saxony   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryobiology; Dehydration; Equine spermatozoa; Freezing; Glassy state; Liposomes; Membrane permeability; Membrane phase behavior; Osmosis; Vitrified state; Water transport

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLYCEROL; LIPOSOME; POLYSACCHARIDE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; EGG YOLK; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STALLION; WATER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HETASTARCH; HORSES; LIPOSOMES; MALE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 84877049815     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.104661     Document Type: Article

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