Seminal fluid factor increases the resistance of the tight junctional complex of cultured human cervical epithelium CaSki cells

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 309-317

  Gorodeski, George I ^a,b,c   Goldfarb, James ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Physiology and Biophysics ^*

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervix; Permeability; Protein kinase C; Resistance; Semen; Tight junctions

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SAMPLING; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; TIGHT JUNCTION; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS;

CALCIUM; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CERVIX UTERI; DIGLYCERIDES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMEN; STAUROSPORINE; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031950847     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)00471-8     Document Type: Article

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