The effect of RANTES on human sperm chemotaxis

Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1441-1446

  Isobe, Tetsuya ^a   Minoura, Hiroyuki ^a   Tanaka, Keisuke ^a   Shibahara, Takashi ^b   Hayashi, Naoko ^b   Toyoda, Nagayasu ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Suzuka Kaisei Gen Hosp 5 23 18 J   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Cytokine; Follicular fluid; Human sperm; RANTES

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MESSENGER RNA; RANTES; CC CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR 1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMOKINESIS; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLICLE FLUID; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERUS FLUID; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPERMATOZOON;

FALLOPIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR FLUID; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; RABBITS; RANTES; RECEPTORS, CCR5; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0035988385     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/17.6.1441     Document Type: Article

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