Fluorometric study of rabbit sperm head membrane phospholipid asymmetry during capacitation and acrosome reaction using annexin-V FITC

Archives of Andrology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 273-285

  Avalos Rodriguez A ^a   Ortiz Muniz A R ^b   Ortega Camarillo, C ^c   Vergara Onofre, M ^a   Rosado Garcia A ^b   Rosales Torres, A M ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE SISTEMAS BIOLÓGICOS   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Acrosome; Annexin V; Asymmetry; Capacitation; FITC; Fluorometric; Phospholipid; Reaction

Indexed keywords

CALCIMYCIN; LIPOCORTIN 5; MEMBRANE LIPID; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROGESTERONE; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOFLUOROMETRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; ANNEXIN A5; CELL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; MALE; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; OVUM; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RABBITS; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM HEAD;

EID: 79961184261     PISSN: 01485016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01485010490448741     Document Type: Article

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