Identification of egg-jelly substances triggering sperm acrosome reaction in the newt cynops pyrrhogaster

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 399-406

  Watanabe, Akihiko ^a   Fukutomi, Keiko ^a   Kubo, Hideo ^b   Ohta, Manami ^a   Takayama Watanabe, Eriko ^c   Onitake, Kazuo ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Yamagata Junior College   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ; CARBOHYDRATE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYNOPS PYRRHOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FERTILITY; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SALAMANDER; SPERMATOZOON;

CYNOPS PYRRHOGASTER; ECHINODERMATA; SALAMANDRIDAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VERTEBRATA;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATES; FEMALE; MALE; OVUM; SALAMANDRIDAE; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 65449179997     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20959     Document Type: Article

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