Stimulation of the nitric oxide/cyclic guanosine monophosphate signaling pathway elicits human sperm chemotaxis in vitro

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1059-1063

  Miraglia, Erica ^a   Rullo, Maria Luisa ^a   Bosia, Amalia ^a   Massobrio, Marco ^a   Revelli, Alberto ^a   Ghigo, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

cGMP dependent protein kinases (PKGs); Cyclic GMP (cGMP); nitric oxide (NO); soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC); sperm chemotaxis; sperm motility

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN KINASE; S NITROSOGLUTATHIONE; SCAVENGER;

ARTICLE; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

CHEMOTAXIS; CYCLIC GMP; HUMANS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 34247548359     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.07.1540     Document Type: Article

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