Nitric oxide interacts with the cAMP pathway to modulate capacitation of human spermatozoa

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 522-536

  Belén Herrero, Maria ^a   Chatterjee, Suvro ^a   Lefièvre, Linda ^a   De Lamirande, Eve ^a   Gagnon, Claude ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

cAMP; Capacitation; Free radicals; Human; Nitric oxide; Spermatozoa; Tyrosine phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; N METHYLGLUCAMINE N CARBODITHIOIC ACID; N(G) METHYLARGININE; N(G) NITRO DEXTRO ARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

1-METHYL-3-ISOBUTYLXANTHINE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HYDRAZINES; ISOQUINOLINES; MALE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; SPERMINE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TYROSINE;

EID: 0343714569     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(00)00339-7     Document Type: Article

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