Low proportions of sperm can bind to the zona pellucida of human oocytes

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2382-2389

  Liu, D Y ^a,b   Garrett, C ^a,b   Baker, H W G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE IVF   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human sperm oocyte interaction; Semen analysis; Sperm morphology; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; MALE FERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; OOCYTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; THEORY; TIME; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0242522127     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg456     Document Type: Article

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