Why did the sperm cross the cumulus? To get to the oocyte. Functions of the sperm surface proteins PH-20 and fertilin in arriving at, and fusing with, the egg

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 320-327

  Myles, Diana G ^a   Primakoff, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; LIGAND BINDING; LIPID BILAYER; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADAM PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; OOCYTES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0031049748     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.2.320     Document Type: Article

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