Reduced fertility in vitro in mice lacking the cystatin CRES (cystatin-related epididymal spermatogenic): Rescue by exposure of spermatozoa to dibutyry cAMP and isobutylmethylxanthine

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 140-152

  Chau, Kim M ^a   Cornwall, Gail A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cystatins; Fertilization; Mouse; Signal transduction; Signaling; Sperm capacitation; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYSTATIN; ISOBUTYLMETHYLXANTHINE; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN CST8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

1-METHYL-3-ISOBUTYLXANTHINE; AGING; ANIMALS; BUCLADESINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYSTATINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS; XANTHINES;

MUS;

EID: 78651520520     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.084855     Document Type: Article

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