Behavioral response of human spermatozoa to a concentration jump of chemoattractants or intracellular cyclic nucleotides

Human Reproduction

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1152-1163

  Gakamsky, Anna ^a   Armon, Leah ^a   Eisenbach, Michael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Mammalian sperm chemotaxis; Sperm chemotaxis; Temporal response

Indexed keywords

BOURGEONAL; CALCIUM; CHEMOATTRACTANT; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; PROGESTERONE;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENZYME RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 67449152404     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/den409     Document Type: Article

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