Acrosome-reacted human sperm in insemination medium do not bind to the zona pellucida of human oocytes

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 475-481

  Liu, D Y ^a   Garrett, C ^a   Baker, H W G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human acrosome status; Sperm zona pellucida binding

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; CALCIUM IONOPHORE; FLUORESCEIN; SOYBEAN TRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

ACROSOME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY; MALE; OOCYTE; PEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSOME REACTION; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR, KUNITZ SOYBEAN; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 33745960043     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: 13652605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2605.2006.00681.x     Document Type: Article

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