Adhesion between plasma membrane and mitochondria with linking filaments in relation to migration of cytoplasmic droplet during epididymal maturation in guinea pig spermatozoa

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 341, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 429-440

  Suzuki Toyota, Fumie ^a   Ito, Chizuru ^a   Maekawa, Mamiko ^a   Toyama, Yoshiro ^a   Toshimori, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Epididymis; Freeze replica; Guinea pig; Membrane adhesion; Sperm maturation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDIDYMIS; FLAGELLUM; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TISSUE PREPARATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL GRANULE; CELL MOTION; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; GUINEA PIG; MEMBRANE FUSION; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CAVIA;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; CYTOPLASMIC STREAMING; CYTOSKELETON; EPIDIDYMIS; GUINEA PIGS; MALE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SPERM MATURATION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 79952118333     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-010-1012-6     Document Type: Article

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