Elsevier

Medical Hypotheses

Volume 36, Issue 2, October 1991, Pages 152-154
Medical Hypotheses

Artificial insemination: Can appropriate stimulation improve success rates?

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Abstract

Studies of other animal species suggest that stimulation during copulation has important effects on the probability of conception. Thus appropriate stimulation during artificial insemination may improve rates of conception.

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