C-kit receptor and its possible function in human spermatozoa

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 103-110

  Feng, Huai L ^a   Sandlow, J I ^b   Zheng, L J ^c  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

C kit proto oncogene; Function; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE INFERTILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTO ONCOGENE; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANTIBODIES; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SPERM AGGLUTINATION; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 10044265586     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20186     Document Type: Article

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