Patch-clamp 'mapping' of ion channel activity in human sperm reveals regionalisation and co-localisation into mixed clusters

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 801-808

  Jimenez Gonzalez M C ^a,b,c   Gu, Y ^a,b   Kirkman Brown, J ^b   Barratt, C L R ^a,b   Publicover, S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; GLUCONATE SODIUM; GLUCONIC ACID; ION CHANNEL;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONALIZATION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACROSOME; CELL MEMBRANE; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SPERM HEAD; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 35848969340     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21153     Document Type: Article

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