Effect of a pre-freezing treatment with cholesterol-loaded cyclodextrins on boar sperm longevity, capacitation dynamics, ability to adhere to porcine oviductal epithelial cells in vitro and DNA fragmentation dynamics

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 935-946

  Tomas C ^a   Blanch, E ^a   Fazeli, A ^b   Moce E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS IVIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

capacitation; cell culture; cryopreservation

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CYCLODEXTRIN; DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; LONGEVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, INBRED STRAINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHOLESTEROL; CROSSES, GENETIC; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; CYCLODEXTRINS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; MALE; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPAIN; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84880247664     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD12079     Document Type: Article

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