Fructose stimulates shedding of cytoplasmic droplets from epididymal boar spermatozoa

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1039-1043

  Harayama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; FRUCTOSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BUCLADESINE; CAFFEINE; CYTOPLASM; EPIDIDYMIS; FRUCTOSE; IMIDAZOLES; MALE; SEMEN; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; VASECTOMY;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0029958080     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD9961039     Document Type: Article

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