A soluble extract from human spermatozoa activates ascidian oocytes

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 329-336

  Wilding, Martin ^a   Kyozuka, Keiichiro ^b   Russo, Gian Luigi ^a   Tosti, Elisabetta ^a   Dale, Brian ^a  

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Calcium; Human sperm; Oocyte activation; Sperm factor

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; CALCIUM; CELL EXTRACT; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHORDATA; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; CHORDATA; CIONA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 0030961761     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1997.t01-2-00008.x     Document Type: Article

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