Effects of relaxin and IGF-I on capacitation, acrosome reaction, cholesterol efflux and utilization of labeled and unlabeled glucose in porcine spermatozoa

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-36

  Miah, Abdul Gaffar ^a   Salma, Ummay ^a   Takagi, Yuji ^a   Kohsaka, Tetsuya ^b   Hamano, Ko Ichi ^a   Tsujii, Hirotada ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Cholesterolefflux; Insulinlike growth factor I; Porcinespermatozoa; Relaxin

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; RELAXIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STAINING;

EID: 38949114880     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2007.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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