Acidic hyaluronidase activity is present in mouse sperm and is reduced in the absence of SPAM1: Evidence for a role for hyaluronidase 3 in mouse and human sperm

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 759-772

  Reese, Kristen L ^a   Aravindan, Rolands G ^a   Griffiths, Genevieve S ^a   Shao, Minghai ^a   Wang, Yipei ^a   Galileo, Deni S ^a   Atmuri, Vasantha ^b   Triggs Raine, Barbara L ^b   Martin DeLeon, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; HYALURONIDASE; HYALURONIDASE 3; SPERM ADHESION MOLECULE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ZYMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMANS; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

MURINAE;

EID: 78149349596     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21217     Document Type: Article

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