Eiichi Kawakami   Tomoko Yagi   Masanori Kobayashi   Tatsuya Hori   
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE 74(2) 201-204 2012年2月 [査読有り]
A Beagle dog (3 years old) that ejaculated high percentages (mean +/- SE: 29.1 +/- 1.2%) of sperm with a knobbed acrosome abnormality and a low number of sperm and that also had a low plasma testosterone (T) level was given 10 subcutaneous injecti...
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE 73(12) 1685-1688 2011年12月 [査読有り]
The fertility was compared between ejaculated and cauda epididymal sperm sensitized with prostatic fluid in dog after freeze-thawing using the fertility of ova from the contralateral ovary after injection (2 x 10(8) sperm) into dog uterus on the u...
Mari Toyonaga   Miki Morita   Tatsuya Hori   Toshihiko Tsutsui   
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE 73(6) 827-829 2011年6月 [査読有り]
Glycoproteins (GPs) are known to be involved in the phenomenon of sperm maturation and capacitation. In the present study, we investigated the attachment of GPs on sperm cell membrane during the process of feline sperm maturation from testicular s...
Toshihiko Tsutsui   Tatsuji Mizutani   Yuka Matsubara   Mari Toyonaga   Hiromichi Oba   Tatsuya Hori   
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE 73(2) 259-262 2011年2月 [査読有り]
The mean post-thaw sperm motilities of feline frozen semen prepared with 1% OEP or 3 g/ml SLS as a cryoprotective agent, in addition to 7% glycerin, were 35.0 +/- 2.4 and 37.0 +/- 2.5%, respectively, showing no significant difference. On unilatera...
Mari Toyonaga   Yuuka Sato   Miki Morita   Masashi Watanabe   Hiromichi Oba   Tatsuji Mizutani   Tatsuya Hori   Toshihiko Tsutsui   
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE 72(6) 777-780 2010年6月 [査読有り]
We observed the influences of low-temperature storage of the feline epididymis on the epididymal semen qualities before and after cryopreservation to identify the optimal duration for low-temperature storage of the epididymis. After excision, the ...