Human sperm chemotaxis: Is progesterone a chemoattractant?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1314-1319

  Jaiswal, Bijay S ^a   Tur Kaspa, Ilan ^a,b   Dor, Jehoshua ^c   Mashiach, Shlomo ^c   Eisenbach, Michael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMOKINESIS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

CHEMOTAXIS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR FLUID; HUMANS; MALE; PROGESTERONE; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0033010630     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.6.1314     Document Type: Article

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