Reduced glutathione and procaine hydrochloride protect the nucleoprotein structure of boar spermatozoa during freeze-thawing by stabilising disulfide bonds

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1036-1050

  Yeste, Marc ^a   Flores, Eva ^b   Estrada, Efrén ^a   Bonet, Sergi ^b   Rigau, Teresa ^a   Rodríguez Gil, Joan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

sperm cryopreservation.

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PEROXIDE; PROCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOAR (MALE PIG); CELL MEMBRANE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISULFIDE BOND; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FREEZE THAWING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG STABILITY; FREE RADICALS; GLUTATHIONE; HOT TEMPERATURE; MALE; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PEROXIDES; PROCAINE; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDES; SWINE;

EID: 84882297142     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD12230     Document Type: Article

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