Optimizing and quantifying fusion of liposomes to mammalian sperm using resonance energy transfer and flow cytometric methods

Cytometry

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 22-27

  Anzar, M ^a   Kakuda, N ^a   He, L ^a   Pauls, K P ^a   Buhr, Mary M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; Fluorescence dequenching; Liposomes; RET; Sperm

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; LIPID COMPOSITION; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CELL ADHESION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE FUSION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL ADHESION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIPOSOMES; MALE; MAMMALS; MEMBRANE FUSION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0036731348     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.10137     Document Type: Article

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