A fertilization promoting peptide (FPP)-related tripeptide competitively inhibits responses to FPP: A cause of male subfertility?

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 529-535

  Fraser, Lynn R ^a   Hanyaloglu, Aylin ^a   Cockle, Sheena M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Adenosine; Capacitation; Fertilization promoting peptide; Thyrotrophin releasing hormone

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; PROTIRELIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DEAMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SUBFERTILITY;

ADENOSINE; ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; SPERM CAPACITATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 0030815875     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199712)48:4<529::AID-MRD14>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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