Delineation of downstream signalling components during acrosome reaction mediated by heat solubilized human zona pellucida

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bhandari, Beena ^a   Bansal, Pankaj ^a   Talwar, Pankaj ^b   Gupta, Satish K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b ARMY HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND REFERRAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; AGGLUTININ; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FLUORESCENT DYE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; PEA LECTIN; PIMOZIDE; PLANT LECTIN; RHODAMINE; TETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE ISOTHIOCYANATE; VERAPAMIL;

ACROSOME REACTION; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXOCYTOSIS; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PEA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLUBILIZATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; SOLUBILITY;

PISUM SATIVUM;

ACROSOME REACTION; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; PIMOZIDE; PLANT LECTINS; RHODAMINES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLUBILITY; SPERM CAPACITATION; VERAPAMIL; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 77649283005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-8-7     Document Type: Article

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