Cytoskeleton localization in the sperm head prior to fertilization

Reproduction

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-69

  Dvořáková, Kateřina ^b   Moore, Harry D M ^a   Šebková, Nataša ^b   Paleček, Jiří ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA TUBULIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; SPECTRIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FERTILIZATION; HAMSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SPERMATOZOON; SQUIRREL;

ACROSOME REACTION; ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CRICETINAE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RATS; SCIURIDAE; SPECTRIN; SPERM HEAD; TUBULIN;

CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 22544446435     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00549     Document Type: Article

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