Mechanisms of sperm-egg interactions: Between sugars and broken bonds

Science Signaling

Volumn 3, Issue 142, 2010, Pages

  Visconti, Pablo E ^a   Florman, Harvey M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME REACTION; CELL ADHESION; EXOCYTOSIS; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPERM; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FERTILITY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYSACCHARIDES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

EID: 77958032520     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.3142pe35     Document Type: Review

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