Sperm binding to oviductal epithelial cells in the rat: Role of sialic acid residues on the epithelial surface and sialic acid-binding sites on the sperm surface

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1262-1269

  Cortés, Paula P ^a,b   Orihuela, Pedro A ^a,b   Zúñiga, Lidia M ^a,b   Velásquez, Luis A ^b   Croxatto, Horacio B ^a,b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Epithelial cells; Female reproductive tract; Oviduct; Rat; Sialic acid; Sperm; Sperm motility and transport; Spermatozoa; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ASIALOFETUIN; CARBOHYDRATE; ESTRADIOL; FETUIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; FUCOSE; GALACTOSE; GLYCOCONJUGATE; LECTIN; MANNOSE; PROGESTERONE; SIALIC ACID; ULEX EUROPAEUS AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOTINYLATION; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOLICHOS; DOLICHOS BIFLORUS; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; ERYTHRINA; ERYTHRINA CRISTAGALLI; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FLAGELLATE; HELIX POMATIA; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PEANUT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRITRICHOMONAS MOBILENSIS; ULEX EUROPAEUS; UTERUS HORN; WHEAT;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GLYCOCONJUGATES; LIGANDS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; RATS; SPERM MATURATION; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; ARACHIS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; CRICETINAE; DOLICHOS; DOLICHOS BIFLORUS; FALLOPIA; HELIX POMATIA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITRICHOMONAS; TRITRICHOMONAS MOBILENSIS; ULEX; ULEX EUROPAEUS;

EID: 4544306439     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.027474     Document Type: Article

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