New insights into sperm-zona pellucida interaction: Involvement of sperm lipid rafts

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1748-1766

  Tanphalchitr, Nongnuj ^a,b   Carmona, Euridice ^c   Khalil, Maroun Bou ^a   Xu, Hongbin ^a   Berger, Trish ^d   Gerton, George L ^e  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Gamete interaction; Lipid rafts; Reivew; Sperm; Zona pellucida; Zona pellucida binding molecules

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249061346     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/2186     Document Type: Article

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