Real-time observations of individual macaque sperm undergoing tight binding and the acrosome reaction on the zona pellucida

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 664-672

  Tollner, Theodore L ^a   Yudin, Ashley I ^a   Cherr, Gary N ^b   Overstreet, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Fertilization; Sperm; Sperm capacitation; Sperm motility and transport

Indexed keywords

ACROSIN; LIGNOSULFONIC ACID; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLAGELLUM; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEMALE; LIGNIN; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ALEXA; ANIMALIA; MACACA; MAMMALIA; SIGMOIDEA;

EID: 0037307156     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.009175     Document Type: Article

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