The gamete fusion process is defective in eggs of Cd9-deficient mice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 279-282

  Kaji, Keisuke ^a   Oda, Shoji ^b   Shikano, Tomohide ^b   Ohnuki, Tatsuya ^c   Uematsu, Yoshikatsu ^c   Sakagami, Junko ^c   Tada, Norihiro ^c   Miyazaki, Shunichi ^b,d   Kudo, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TAISHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUSION; FEMALE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROVILLI; OVUM; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034091646     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/73502     Document Type: Article

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