The Fallopian tubes in domestic mammals: How vital is their physiological activity?

Reproduction Nutrition Development

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 281-290

  Hunter, Ronald Henry Fraser ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fertilisation; Isthmus; Microenvironments; Polyspermy; Sperm gradient; Temperature; Tubal anastomosis

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MICROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UTERINE TUBE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BODY TEMPERATURE; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MAMMALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; FALLOPIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 21844475899     PISSN: 09265287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/rnd:2005020     Document Type: Review

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