Difference of acrosomal serine protease system between mouse and other rodent sperm

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-122

  Yamagata, Kazuo ^a   Honda, Arata ^a   Kashiwabara, Shin Ichi ^a   Baba, Tadashi ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATL INST FOR ADV INTERDISC RES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrosin; Acrosome; Mouse; Serine protease; Sperm; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

ACROSIN; CALCIMYCIN; GELATIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAMSTER; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSIN; ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; CALCIMYCIN; CATTLE; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; IONOPHORES; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RATS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; CRICETINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032875968     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1999)25:2<115::AID-DVG5>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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