Fertilization in animals

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-86

  Wassarman, Paul M ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrosomal proteases; Acrosome reaction; Ca2+ channels; Capacitation; Chemotaxis; Fertilization; Nuclear transformation; Sperm activation; Vilelline envelope; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

ACROSIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL; SPERM ACTIVATING PEPTIDE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ASTERIAS; CHEMOTAXIS; FERTILIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; VITELLINE MEMBRANE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMOTAXIS; EGG PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; PEPTIDES; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALIA; ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032858642     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1999)25:2<83::AID-DVG1>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Review

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