Protein kinase C action at fertilization: Overstated or undervalued?

Reviews of Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-12

  Jones, Keith T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; DIACYLGLYCEROL; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; PHORBOL ESTER; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN KINASE C INHIBITOR;

CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL GRANULE; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SECOND MESSENGER; SPERMATOZOON;

CALCIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; OVARY; PROTEIN KINASE C; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031965637     PISSN: 13596004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ror.0.0030007     Document Type: Review

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