Unusual steroid specificity of the cell surface progesterone receptor on human sperm

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 727-739

  Blackmore, Peter F ^a   Fisher, Jed F ^b   Spilman, Charles H ^b   Bleasdale, John E ^b  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; MEGESTROL ACETATE; NORETHISTERONE; NORETYNODREL; PROGESTERONE DERIVATIVE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ACROSOME; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL SPECIFICITY; COVALENT BOND; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; STEROID METABOLISM; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; MALE; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SPERMATOZOA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0029871761     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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