The early haploid male gamete develops a capacity for fertilization after the coalescence of the proacrosomal granules

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2713-2719

  Sofikitis, Nikolaos ^a   Yamamoto, Yasuhisa ^a   Isoyama, Tadahiro ^a   Miyagawa, Ikuo ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrosome; Fertilization; Infertility; Round spermatid

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MORULA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; RABBIT; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031451640     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.12.2713     Document Type: Article

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