Factors regulating sperm capacitation

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 334-348

  Bailey, Janice L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bicarbonate; calcium; cholesterol; protein tyrosine phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); ADENYLATE CYCLASE; BICARBONATE; CALMODULIN; CHOLESTEROL; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE P60;

CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; LIPID RAFT; MEMBRANE POLARIZATION AND DEPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77956897156     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2010.512377     Document Type: Review

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