Human epididymal proteins and sperm function during fertilization: Un update

Biological Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 165-178

  Lasserre, Andrea ^a   Barrozo, Romina ^a,b   Tezón, Jorge G ^a   Miranda, Patricia V ^a   Vazquez Levin, Mónica H ^a,c  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales   (Argentina)

^c NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA N ACETYLHEXOSAMINIDASE; BINDING PROTEIN; CADHERIN; CD52 ANTIGEN; CLUSTERIN; CYSTEINE; CYTOKERATIN; FIBRONECTIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; SECRETORY PROTEIN; SPERM ANTIGEN; UBIQUITIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVIEW; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035164425     PISSN: 07169760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602001000300004     Document Type: Review

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