Cyclic AMP signalling during mammalian sperm capacitation - Still largely Terra Incognita

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 102-110

  Harrison, R A P ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CYCLIC AMP; ISOENZYME;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANIMALS; CYCLIC AMP; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037386903     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0531.2003.00400.x     Document Type: Article

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