Positive role of reactive oxygen species in mammalian sperm capacitation: triggering and modulation of phosphorylation events

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 528-540

  O'Flaherty, Cristián ^a   de Lamirande, Eve ^a   Gagnon, Claude ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Free radicals; Hydrogen peroxide; Nitric oxide; Phosphoproteins; Protein kinases; Signal transduction; Spermatozoa; Superoxide anion

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FREE RADICAL; GLUTAMINE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE; THREONINE; TYROSINE; XANTHINE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

CELL METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; FERTILIZATION; FLAGELLUM; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SPERM CAPACITATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33746077694     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2006.04.027     Document Type: Review

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