Effect of green tea (Camellia sinensis) extract and pre-freezing equilibration time on the post-thawing quality of ram semen cryopreserved in a soybean lecithin-based extender

Cryobiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 297-303

  Mehdipour, Mahdieh ^a   Daghigh Kia, Hossein ^a   Najafi, Abouzar ^a   Vaseghi Dodaran, Hossein ^a   García Álvarez, Olga ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Camellia sinensis extract; Cryopreservation; Equilibration time; Soybean lecithin

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GREEN TEA EXTRACT; MALONALDEHYDE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; ANTIOXIDANT; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; GLYCEROL; PLANT EXTRACT; TEA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EQUILIBRATION TIME; FREEZE THAWING; FREEZING; MALE; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMA MEMBRANE INTEGRITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAM (SHEEP); SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TEA; THAWING; TIME; ANIMAL; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; PROCEDURES; SHEEP; SOYBEAN; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; FREEZING; GLYCEROL; LECITHINS; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SHEEP; SOYBEANS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TEA;

EID: 84995596315     PISSN: 00112240     EISSN: 10902392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2016.10.008     Document Type: Article

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