Human seminal plasma prevents sperm from becoming acrosomally responsive to the agonist, progesterone: Cholesterol is the major inhibitor

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 138-145

  Cross, Nicholas L ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PROGESTERONE; SPERMINE;

ACROSOME; ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SOLUBILITY; SPERM; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ACROSOME; CHOLESTEROL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; HEAT; HUMAN; MALE; PROGESTERONE; PRONASE; SEMEN; SPERMATOZOA; SPERMINE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029656158     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.1.138     Document Type: Article

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