Decreased protein tyrosine phosphorylation and membrane fluidity in spermatozoa from infertile men with varicocele

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1591-1599

  Buffone, M G ^a   Brugo Olmedo, S ^b   Calamera, J C ^a   Verstraeten, S V ^c   Urrutia, F ^b   Grippo, L ^d   Corbetta, J P ^d   Doncel, G F ^e  

^a Laboratorio de Estudios en Reproduccion LER   (Argentina)

^b Centro de Estudios en Ginecologia y Reproduccion Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d HOSPITAL FRANCÉS   (Argentina)

^e EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitation; Human spermatozoa; Hyperactivation; Membrane properties; Semen pathology; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; VARICOCELE;

EID: 33750312315     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20611     Document Type: Article

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