Oviduct fluid and heparin induce similar surface changes in bovine sperm during capacitation: A flow cytometric study using lectins

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 554-560

  Mahmoud, A I ^a   Parrish, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Heparin; Oviduct fluid; Triticum vulgaris

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEPARIN; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; HEPARIN; LECTINS; MALE; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININS;

EID: 0029966093     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199604)43:4<554::AID-MRD19>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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