Assessment of sperm chemokinesis with exposure to jelly coats of sea urchin eggs and resact: A microfluidic experiment and numerical study

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 3805-3820

  Inamdar, Munish V ^a   Kim, Taeyong ^a   Chung, Yao Kuang ^a   Was, Alex M ^a   Xiang, Xinran ^a   Wang, Chia Wei ^a   Takayama, Shuichi ^a   Lastoskie, Christian M ^a   Thomas, Florence I M ^b   Sastry, Ann Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbacia punctulata; Chemokinesis; Microfluidics; Sperm; Stochastic simulations

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; EGG PROTEIN; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; RESACT PROTEIN, SEA URCHIN; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARBACIA; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CHEMISTRY; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARBACIA; CELL SIZE; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; MALE; MICROFLUIDICS; OVUM; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEAWATER; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ARBACIA; ARBACIA PUNCTULATA; ECHINOIDEA;

EID: 36749067711     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.005439     Document Type: Article

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