Adenosine and catecholamine agonists speed the flagellar beat of mammalian sperm by a non-receptor-mediated mechanism

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 960-969

  Schuh, Sonya M ^a   Hille, Bertil ^a   Babcock, Donner F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenosine; cAMP; Catecholamines; CNT; ENT; Flagellar beat; Nucleoside transporter; sAC; SLC28A; SLC29A; Soluble adenylyl cyclase; Sperm capacitation; Sperm motility and transport

Indexed keywords

2 [4 (2 CARBOXYETHYL)PHENETHYLAMINO]ADENOSINE 5' (N ETHYLCARBOXAMIDE); 8 CYCLOPENTYL 1,3 DIPROPYLXANTHINE; ADENOSINE DERIVATIVE; ADENOSINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ADENOSINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ADRENALIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; CLADRIBINE; CYCLIC AMP; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; ISOPRENALINE; LITHIUM ION; NORADRENALIN; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER; SODIUM ION;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; WAVEFORM;

ADENOSINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 36649037557     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.062562     Document Type: Article

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