A model of the acrosome reaction progression via the acrosomal membrane-anchored protein equatorin

Reproduction

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 533-544

  Yoshida, Keiichi ^a   Ito, Chizuru ^a   Yamatoya, Kenji ^a   Maekawa, Mamiko ^a   Toyama, Yoshiro ^a   Suzuki Toyota, Fumie ^a   Toshimori, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN MN9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME REACTION; ARTICLE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; PEANUT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TIME FACTORS;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA;

EID: 77149124254     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-09-0434     Document Type: Article

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