Sperm initiate a Ca2+ wave in frog eggs that is more similar to Ca2+ waves initiated by IP3 than by Ca2+

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1580-1590

  Bugrim, Andrej ^a,c   Fontanilla, Ray ^a   Eutenier, Bridget B ^a   Keizer, Joel ^a   Nuccitelli, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RPN Enterprises Inc   (United States)

^c GeneGo bioinformatics software Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CELL RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CALCULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DIFFUSION; EGG; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CORTEX; SPERM; SYNTHESIS; TECHNIQUE; VELOCITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FERTILIZATION; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVUM; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SPERMATOZOA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037340845     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74968-6     Document Type: Article

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