Free-radical production after post-thaw incubation of ram spermatozoa is related to decreased in vivo fertility

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1187-1196

  Del Olmo, Enrique ^a   Bisbal, Alfonso ^a   García Álvarez, Olga ^a   Maroto Morales, Alejandro ^a   Ramón, Manuel ^b   Jiménez Rabadán, Pilar ^b   Anel López, Luis ^a   Soler, Ana J ^a   Garde, J Julián ^a   Fernández Santos, María R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b Regional Center of Animal Selection and Reproduction (CERSYRA) JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

artificial insemination; flow cytometry; fluorescein (CM H2DCFDA); frozen semen

Indexed keywords

CHROMOMYCIN A3; FREE RADICAL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; ASSAY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FREEZING; IN VIVO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY RATE; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM CHROMATIN STRUCTURE ASSAY; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; THAWING; TUNEL ASSAY; ANIMAL; FERTILITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; SHEEP; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SHEEP; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84943787075     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD14043     Document Type: Article

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