Lack of species-specificity in mammalian sperm chemotaxis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 423-427

  Sun, Fei ^a   Giojalas, Laura C ^b   Rovasio, Roberto A ^b   Tur Kaspa, Ilan ^c   Sanchez, Raul ^d   Eisenbach, Michael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Chemoattractant; Chemotaxis; Egg factor; Fertilization; Follicular fluid; Human sperm; Rabbit sperm; Species specificity; Sperm chemoattractant; Sperm chemotaxis

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

AMPHIBIA; BOVINAE; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0345269122     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(02)00090-8     Document Type: Article

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