Signal transduction mechanisms involved in in vitro ram sperm capacitation

Reproduction

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 721-732

  Grasa, Patricia ^a   Cebrián Pérez, José Álvaro ^a   Muiño Blanco, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ION; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; CHOLESTEROL; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ETHIDIUM; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; N [2 (4 BROMOCINNAMYLAMINO)ETHYL] 5 ISOQUINOLINESULFONAMIDE; TYROSINE; VERAPAMIL;

ACROSOME REACTION; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOQUINOLINES; MALE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM BICARBONATE; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; SULFONAMIDES; VERAPAMIL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33751205913     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00770     Document Type: Review

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