On the cellular mechanisms by which the bicarbonate ion mediates the extragenomic action of progesterone on human spermatozoa

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 186-196

  Aitken, R John ^a   Harkiss, Diana ^a   Knox, Wendy ^a   Paterson, Margaret ^a   Irvine, Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; PROGESTERONE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TYROSINE;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL FUSION; CELL PH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; HAMSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOZOON;

ACROSOME; ANIONS; BICARBONATES; CALCIUM; CYCLIC AMP; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ION CHANNELS; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; PROGESTERONE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 0031983519     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.1.186     Document Type: Article

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