Mice deficient in CHRNA7, a subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, produce sperm with impaired motility

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 807-814

  Bray, Christopher ^a   Son, Jung Ho ^a   Kumar, Priyadarsini ^a   Meizel, Stanley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamete biology; Neurotransmitters; Sperm; Sperm capacitation; Sperm motility and transport

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; RHODAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CHRNA7 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLUM; FLUORESCENCE; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BUNGAROTOXINS; CELL SURVIVAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; ORGAN SIZE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTIS;

EID: 25144491031     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.042184     Document Type: Article

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