Reduction of mouse egg surface integrin alpha9 subunit (ITGA9) reduces the egg's ability to support sperm-egg binding and fusion

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 833-841

  Vjugina, Ulyana ^a,b   Zhu, Xiaoling ^a,c   Oh, Eugene ^a,d   Bracero, Nabal J ^a,e   Evans, Janice P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b American Society of Hematology   (United States)

^c Deceased ^*

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Genes Fertility Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

ADAM; Fertilization; In vitro fertilization; Integrin; Ovum; Sperm Egg binding

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTEGRIN; BETA1 INTEGRIN; INTEGRIN ALPHA 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EGG; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; INTEGRIN ALPHA CHAINS; MALE; MICE; OVUM; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 65249141091     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.075275     Document Type: Article

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