Mammalian sperm-egg fusion: The development of rat oolemma fusibility during oogenesis involves the appearance of binding sites for sperm protein 'DE'

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 200-206

  Cohen, Débora J ^a   Munuce, María J ^a   Cuasnicú, Patricia S ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL Y MED EXPERIMENTAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029834990     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.1.200     Document Type: Article

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