Impact of marine drugs on cytoskeleton-mediated reproductive events

Marine Drugs

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 881-915

  Silvestre, Francesco ^a   Tosti, Elisabetta ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Marine drugs; Microfilaments; Microtubules; Reproduction; Toxins

Indexed keywords

AZASPIRACID DERIVATIVE; BETA TUBULIN; CALYCULIN; CAULERPENYNE; DINOPHYSISTOXIN 1; DINOPHYSISTOXIN DERIVATIVE; DOLASTATIN; DOLASTATIN 15; F ACTIN; GEODIAMOLIDE DERIVATIVE; JASPAMIDE; LATRUNCULIN; LATRUNCULIN A; LATRUNCULIN B; MARINE TOXIN; METHOXYCONIDIOL; NATURAL PRODUCT; OKADAIC ACID; OXYLIPIN; PALYTOXIN; PECTENOTOXIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE INHIBITOR; PSEUDOPTEROLIDE; STRONGYLOPHORINE DERIVATIVE; STYPOLDIONE; SWINHOLIDE; SWINHOLIDE A; THEONELLAPEPTOLIDE IE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

CYTOSKELETON; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TARGETING; FERTILIZATION; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN TARGETING; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

EID: 77952572330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md8040881     Document Type: Review

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