Post-testicular development of a novel membrane substructure within the equatorial segment of ram, bull, boar, and goat spermatozoa as viewed by atomic force microscopy

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 187-198

  Ellis, Darren J ^a   Shadan, Sadaf ^b   James, Peter S ^b   Henderson, Robert M ^a   Michael Edwardson, J ^a   Hutchings, Amanda ^b   Jones, Roy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AFM; Equatorial segment; Fertilization; Membrane fusion; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

CALCIMYCIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; EXOCYTOSIS; GOAT; MALE; MEMBRANE BINDING; MONKEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SPERMATOZOON; STALLION; SWINE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GOATS; IONOPHORES; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOBLEACHING; SHEEP; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; TESTIS;

ARTIODACTYLA; CAPRA HIRCUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036417977     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-8477(02)00025-4     Document Type: Article

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