Treatment of human spermatozoa with seminal plasma inhibits protein tyrosine phosphorylation

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-25

  Tomes, Claudia N ^a,d   Carballada, Rosa ^a,c   Moses, Daniel F ^b   Katz, David F ^a   Saling, Patricia M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centro de Investigaciones Reproductivas Perez Companc   (Argentina)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Instituto de Histologia y Embriologia   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Motility; Phosphorylation; Seminal plasma; Spermatozoa; Tyrosine

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

CELL SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; PROTEINS; SEMEN; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0031934887     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.1.17     Document Type: Article

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