Inhibition of monkey sperm hyaluronidase activity and heterologous cumulus penetration by flavonoids

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1383-1389

  Li, Ming Wen ^a   Yudin, Ashley I ^a   VandeVoort, Catherine A ^a   Sabeur, Khalida ^a   Primakoff, Paul ^a   Overstreet, James W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIGENIN; HYALURONIDASE; TANNIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FERTILIZATION; HAMSTER; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; CHAMOMILE; CRICETINAE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FLAVONOIDS; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; HYDROLYZABLE TANNINS; KAEMPFEROLS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; QUERCETIN; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0030947633     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.6.1383     Document Type: Article

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