Group III secreted phospholipase A2 regulates epididymal sperm maturation and fertility in mice

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1400-1414

  Sato, Hiroyasu ^a,b   Taketomi, Yoshitaka ^a,b   Isogai, Yuki ^a,c   Miki, Yoshimi ^a,b   Yamamoto, Kei ^a   Masuda, Seiko ^a,b   Hosono, Tomohiko ^b   Arata, Satoru ^b   Ishikawa, Yukio ^d   Ishii, Toshiharu ^d   Kobayashi, Tetsuyuki ^c,e   Nakanishi, Hiroki ^e,f   Ikeda, Kazutaka ^e,f   Taguchi, Ryo ^e,f   Hara, Shuntaro ^b   Kudo, Ichiro ^b   Murakami, Makoto ^a,e  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; DOCOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; MEMBRANE LIPID; OLEIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 GROUP III;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLAGELLUM; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROUP III PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77951770139     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI40493     Document Type: Article

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