The biochemistry of the acrosome reaction

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 195-202

  Breitbart, Haim ^a   Spungin, Ben ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Hydrolytic enzymes; Intracellular calcium concentration; Membrane domains; Plasma membrane receptors

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CALCIUM; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL DIACYLGLYCEROL LYASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSOME; ACTINS; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; FEMALE; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL DIACYLGLYCEROL-LYASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; PROTEIN KINASES; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0031090625     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/3.3.195     Document Type: Article

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