The many faces of egg activation at fertilization

Signal Transduction

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 118-141

  Leguia, Mariana ^a   Wessel, Gary M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Cortical granules; Fertilization; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN;

CALCIUM BINDING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL GRANULE; EXOCYTOSIS; FERTILIZATION; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 34248174484     PISSN: 16154053     EISSN: 16154061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sita.200600122     Document Type: Review

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