Testing an egg yolk supplemented diet on boars to aid in sperm adaptation at 5°C

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 253-262

  Casas, Isabel ^a,b   Miller Lux, Yvonne ^a   Osborne, Betty ^a   Bonet, Sergi ^b   Althouse, Gary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boar; cryopreservation; sperm

Indexed keywords

TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EGG YOLK; EJACULATION; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FAT CONTENT; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; POWDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; COLD; CYTOLOGY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; EVALUATION STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; SPERMATOZOON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; COLD TEMPERATURE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EGG YOLK; MALE; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE;

EID: 84941599649     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2015.1040137     Document Type: Article

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