Receptors in spermatozoa: Are they real?

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 627-636

  Naz, Rajesh K ^a,b   Sellamuthu, Rajendran ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN; ANGIOTENSIN II; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CALCITONIN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR3; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYTOKINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; GLYCINE; GONADORELIN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MAMMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, LH; RECEPTORS, LHRH; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 33749503007     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.106.000620     Document Type: Review

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