A high molecular weight glycoprotein in seminal plasma is a sperm immobilizing factor in the teleost Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 619-627

  Mochida, Kazuhiko ^a   Kondo, Tomoko ^a   Matsubara, Takahiro ^b   Adachi, Shinji ^a   Yamauchi, Kohei ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Seminal plasma; Sertoli cell; Sperm auto antigen; Sperm immobilizing factor; Teleost

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; SEMINAL PLASMA; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TILAPIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SEMEN; SPERM HEAD; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTIS; TILAPIA;

EID: 0032744582     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169x.1999.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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