An improved mouse sperm-oocyte plasmalemma binding assay: Studies on characteristics of sperm binding in medium with or without glucose

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 500-508

  Redkar, Anjali A ^a   Olds Clarke, Patricia J ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

In vitro fertilization; Polyspermy; Pronuclear zygotes; Zona free oocytes

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL ADHESION; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYSPERMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; MALE; METHODS; MICE; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0032781044     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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