Both fertilization promoting peptide and adenosine stimulate capacitation but inhibit spontaneous acrosome loss in ejaculated boar spermatozoa in vitro

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 117-124

  Funahashi, Hiroaki ^a   Asano, Atsushi ^a   Fujiwara, Toshimitsu ^a   Nagai, Takashi ^b   Niwa, Koji ^a   Fraser, Lynn R ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR TOHOKU REGION   (Japan)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adenosine; Adenosine receptors; Adenylyl cyclase; Caffeine; CAMP; FPP

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE RECEPTOR; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CAFFEINE; CYCLIC AMP; PEPTIDE;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EJACULATION; FERTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SWINE;

EID: 0033992368     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(200001)55:1<117::AID-MRD16>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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