Progesterone activates the principal Ca2+ channel of human sperm

Nature

Volumn 471, Issue 7338, 2011, Pages 387-392

  Lishko, Polina V ^a   Botchkina, Inna L ^a   Kirichok, Yuriy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CATSPER CHANNEL; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CALCIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EGG; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HORMONE; ION; MEMBRANE; PH; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTION; SPERM;

ACROSOME REACTION; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL PH; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENOMICS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SECOND MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON;

ALPROSTADIL; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MICE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM TAIL;

EID: 79952800026     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09767     Document Type: Article

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