The coiled tail of the round-headed spermatozoa appears during epididymal passage in GOPC-deficient mice

Archives of Histology and Cytology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 361-371

  Suzuki Toyota, Fumie ^a   Ito, Chizuru ^a   Toyama, Yoshiro ^a   Maekawa, Mamiko ^a   Yao, Ryoji ^b   Noda, Tetsuo ^b   Toshimori, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; GENE; GENE DELETION; GLOBOZOOSPERMIA; GOPC GENE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERM MATURATION; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 13444267538     PISSN: 09149465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1679/aohc.67.361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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