Supplementing cryopreservation media with reduced glutathione increases fertility and prolificacy of sows inseminated with frozen-thawed boar semen

Andrology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 88-99

  Estrada, E ^a   Rodriguez Gil J E ^a   Rocha, L G ^a   Balasch, S ^b   Bonet, S ^c   Yeste, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Swine Genetic Services (Gepork SL)   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

AI; Boar sperm; Cryopreservation; Fertility; Nucleoprotein structure; Prolificacy; Reduced glutathione

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FREEZE THAWING; FREEZING; INCUBATION TIME; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUPPLEMENTATION; SWINE;

AI; BOAR SPERM; CRYOPRESERVATION; FERTILITY; NUCLEOPROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROLIFICACY; REDUCED GLUTATHIONE;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GLUTATHIONE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LITTER SIZE; MALE; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84890816523     PISSN: 20472919     EISSN: 20472927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2047-2927.2013.00144.x     Document Type: Article

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