Presence and release of bovine sperm histone H1 during chromatin decondensation by heparin-glutathione

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 221-230

  Sanchez Vazquez, Maria Luisa ^a   Flores Alonso, Juan Carlos ^a   Merchant Larios, Horacio ^b   Reyes, Rosalina ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Laboratorio de Biología de la Reproducción   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bovine sperm; Chromatin remodelling; Decondensation; Heparin GSH; Histone H1

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; CELL NUCLEUS DNA; GLUTATHIONE; HEPARIN; HISTONE H1; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CELL SWELLING; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; COW; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEON; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLUTATHIONE; HEPARIN; HISTONES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 57349152550     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19396360802357087     Document Type: Article

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