Reduction of intramembranous particles in the periacrosomal plasma membrane of boar spermatozoa during in vitro capacitation: A statistical study

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 265-273

  Suzuki Toyota, Fumie ^a   Itoh, Yoneto ^b   Naito, Kunihiko ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropol Livestock Exp S   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boar spermatozoa; Capacitation; Cholesterol; Freeze fracture; Membrane remodeling

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; FILIPIN;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREEZE FRACTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWINE;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL MEMBRANE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FILIPIN; FREEZE FRACTURING; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MALE; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0033918071     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.2000.00510.x     Document Type: Article

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