Secretory mechanisms and Ca2+ signaling in gametes: Similarities to regulated neuroendocrine secretion in somatic cells and involvement in emerging pathologies

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 191-203

  Ducibella, Tom ^a,b   Matson, Sara ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Eggs; Endocrine; Exocrine; Exocytosis; Secretion; Sperm

Indexed keywords

SNARE PROTEIN;

CALCIUM SIGNALING; EXOCYTOSIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; GERM CELL; HORMONE RELEASE; INSULIN RELEASE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; POLYSPERMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ANIMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; SNARE PROTEINS;

EID: 40749128915     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12022-007-0015-7     Document Type: Review

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