Egg integrins: Back in the game of mammalian fertilization

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 321-323

  Evans, Janice P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAM PROTEIN; BETA1 INTEGRIN; CALCIUM ION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; ECD PEPTIDE; EGG PROTEIN; FERTILIN; FERTILIN BETA; INTEGRIN; LIGAND; PEPTIDE; TRIPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CROSS LINKING; EGG; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTEGRIN BETA CHAINS; OVUM; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 65749091728     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb900110q     Document Type: Short Survey

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