Flow cytometric detection of transbilayer movement of fluorescent phospholipid analogues across the boar sperm plasma membrane: Elimination of labeling artifacts

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 108-125

  Gadella, B M ^a,b,c   Miller, N G A ^b   Colenbrander, B ^a   Van Golde, L M G ^a   Harrison, R A P ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acrosome; Cell death; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; Lipid metabolism; Phospholipid asymmetry; Temperature

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PHOSPHOLIPID DERIVATIVE; SPHINGOMYELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON;

4-CHLORO-7-NITROBENZOFURAZAN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; DITHIONITE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT DYES; KINETICS; MALE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SPERMATOZOA; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032899166     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199905)53:1<108::AID-MRD13>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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