Ionic regulation of egg activation

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1982, Pages 593-666

  Steinhardt, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM; EGG PROTEIN; ION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SEA URCHIN; SPERMATOZOON;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMAL; CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM; DNA REPLICATION; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IONS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; OVUM; SEA URCHINS; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSLATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0020215849     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: 14698994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583500003760     Document Type: Article

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