Trypan blue/Giemsa staining to assess sperm membrane integrity in salernitano stallions and its relationship to pregnancy rates

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 41-47

  Serafini, R ^a   Longobardi, V ^a   Spadetta, M ^a   Neri, D ^a   Ariota, B ^a   Gasparrini, B ^a   Di Palo, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE;

TRYPAN BLUE;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; CELL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GIEMSA STAIN; HORSE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; AZURE STAINS; BREEDING; CELL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORSES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; STAINING AND LABELING; TRYPAN BLUE;

EID: 84892554756     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rda.12221     Document Type: Article

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