Cytoskeletal dynamics during mammalian gametegenesis and fertilization: Implications for human reproduction

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 179-187

  Terada, Yukihiro ^a   Morito, Yuki ^a   Tachibana, Masahito ^a   Morita, Junko ^a   Nakamura, So Ichi ^a   Murakami, Takashi ^a   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a   Okamura, Kunihiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive techniques; Cytoskeleton; Fertilization; Gametegenesis; Sperm centrosome

Indexed keywords

CENTRIN; F ACTIN; G ACTIN; GAMMA TUBULIN; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CENTROSOME; CYTOSKELETON; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETOGENESIS; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 25844434272     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2005.00103.x     Document Type: Review

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