Mammalian sperm acrosome reaction: Where does it begin before fertilization

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-5

  Yanagimachi, Ryuzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; FERTILIZATION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; SPERMATOZOON; STARFISH; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MALE; MAMMALS; SPERMATOZOA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79960150098     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.092601     Document Type: Note

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