Fertilization of sea urchin eggs and sperm motility are negatively impacted under low hypergravitational forces significant to space flight

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1224-1231

  Tash, J S ^a   Kim, S ^a   Schuber, M ^a   Seibt, D ^a   Kinsey, W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Gamete biology; Immunology; Signal transduction; Sperm; Sperm motility and transport

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GRAVITY; MICROSCOPE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

EID: 0034815749     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod65.4.1224     Document Type: Article

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