Roles of bicarbonate, cAMP, and protein tyrosine phosphorylation on capacitation and the spontaneous acrosome reaction of hamster sperm

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 76-84

  Visconti, Pablo E ^a   Stewart Savage, J ^b   Blasco, Aida ^c   Battaglia, Licia ^c   Miranda, Patricia ^c   Kopf, Gregory S ^a   Tezón, Jorge G ^c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c INST DE BIOL Y MED EXPERIMENTAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 ACETAMIDO 4' ISOTHIOCYANATOSTILBENE 2,2' DISULFONIC ACID; 4,4' DIISOTHIOCYANATOSTILBENE 2,2' DISULFONIC ACID; BICARBONATE; CYCLIC AMP; ISOBUTYLMETHYLXANTHINE; TYROSINE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANION TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

4,4'-DIISOTHIOCYANOSTILBENE-2,2'-DISULFONIC ACID; 4-ACETAMIDO-4'-ISOTHIOCYANATOSTILBENE-2,2'-DISULFONIC ACID; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; ANTIPORTERS; BICARBONATES; CALCIMYCIN; CRICETINAE; CULTURE MEDIA; CYCLIC AMP; IONOPHORES; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; SODIUM BICARBONATE; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0032985619     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.1.76     Document Type: Article

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