Semen-coagulating protein, SVS2, in mouse seminal plasma controls sperm fertility

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 353-361

  Kawano, Natsuko ^a   Yoshida, Manabu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Decapacitation factor; Epididymal sperm; Female reproductive tract; Fertilization; Male reproductive tract; Seminal vesicles; Sperm capacitation

Indexed keywords

BASIC PROTEIN; DECAPACITATION FACTOR; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN; SEMINAL VESICLE PROTEIN SECRETION 2; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEMEN; SEMINAL VESICLE SECRETORY PROTEINS; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33847223490     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.056887     Document Type: Article

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