FPP modulates mammalian sperm function via TCP-11 and the adenylyl cyclase/cAMP pathway

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 468-476

  Adeoya Osiguwa, S A ^a   Dudley, R K ^a   Hosseini, R ^a   Fraser, L R ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adenosine; Capacitation; Fertilization promoting peptide; T complex

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CYCLIC AMP; FERTILIZATION PROMOTING PEPTIDE; TRIPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MALE; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE-5'-(N-ETHYLCARBOXAMIDE); ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANIMALS; CHAPERONINS; CYCLIC AMP; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FAB FRAGMENTS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; SPERMATOZOA; TESTICULAR HORMONES; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 0031764683     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199812)51:4<468::AID-MRD14>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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