Role of cholesterol in sperm capacitation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-11

  Cross, Nicholas L ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; MANNOSE RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ACROSOME REACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL PH; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MALE FERTILITY; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031776647     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.1.7     Document Type: Short Survey

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