Sperm factor: What is it and what does it do?

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 269-273

  Wilding, Martin ^a   Dale, Brian ^a  

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

CICR; G proteins; IICR; Oocyte activation; Soluble sperm factor

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOSOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE FUSION; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SECOND MESSENGER; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CYTOSOL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; INOSITOL 1,4,5-TRISPHOSPHATE; MALE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0031090626     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/3.3.269     Document Type: Article

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