Macaque sperm fusion with zona-free hamster oocytes

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 356-360

  VandeVoort, C A ^a   Overstreet, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Capacitation; Fertilization; Macaca fascicularis; Semen

Indexed keywords

CRICETINAE; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HAMSTER; MACACA; MALE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; OOCYTES; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0030253356     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.1996.tb00028.x     Document Type: Article

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