Site of the mammalian sperm physiological acrosome reaction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4703-4704

  Bedford, J M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZONA PELLUCIDA GLYCOPROTEIN 1; ZONA PELLUCIDA GLYCOPROTEIN 2; ZONA PELLUCIDA GLYCOPROTEIN 3;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CUMULUS CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OOCYTES; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79953218781     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102296108     Document Type: Note

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