Metal ions and human sperm mannose receptors

Andrologia

Volumn 32, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 317-329

  Benoff, S ^a,b,c   Cooper, G W ^a,b,c   Centola, G M ^a,b,c   Jacob, A ^a,b,c   Hershlag, A ^a,b,c   Hurley, I R ^a,b,c  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental exposures; Human spermatozoa; Mannose receptors; Metal ions; Seminal plasma

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CHOLESTEROL; COBALT; DIBROMOCHLOROPROPANE; ETHANE; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MANNOSE RECEPTOR; METAL ION; NICKEL; PESTICIDE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; ZINC;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

COBALT; ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; ION CHANNELS; LEAD; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MALE; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTINS; METALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NICKEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPANE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEMEN; SPERM HEAD; SPERMATOZOA; ZINC;

EID: 0033807297     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0272.2000.00401.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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