Infertility with impaired zona pellucida adhesion of spermatozoa from mice lacking TauCstF-64

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 464-472

  Tardif, Steve ^a   Akrofi, Amma S ^a   Dass, Brinda ^a,b   Hardy, Daniel M ^a   MacDonald, Clinton C ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Gamete biology; Infertility; Oligoasthenoteratozoospermia; Polyadenylation; Sperm; Sperm egg adhesion

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROACROSIN; PROTEIN SPAM1; PROTEIN TAUCSTF 64; PROTEIN ZP3R; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZONADHESIN;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CSTF2T GENE; CUMULUS CELL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSOME; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CLEAVAGE STIMULATION FACTOR; CUMULUS CELLS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

MUS;

EID: 77956116290     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.083238     Document Type: Article

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