The removal of the sperm perinuclear theca and its association with the bovine oocyte surface during fertilization

Developmental Biology

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-84

  Sutovsky, Peter ^a,c   Oko, Richard ^b   Hewitson, Laura ^a   Schatten, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHALASIN B; DITHIOTHREITOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; DISULFIDE BOND; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MICROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THECA CELL;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031214281     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8618     Document Type: Article

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