Strategies for locating the female gamete: The importance of measuring sperm trajectories in three spatial dimensions

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 511-523

  Guerrero, Adán ^a   Carneiro, Jorge ^b   Pimentel, Arturo ^a   Wood, Christopher D ^a   Corkidi, Gabriel ^a   Darszon, Alberto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

3D flagellar beat; Axoneme; Ca2+ signaling; Chemotaxis; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL;

AXONEME; CHEMOTAXIS; GAMETE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWIMMING; VISCOSITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; MALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHEMOTAXIS; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVUM; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 80055075654     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gar042     Document Type: Review

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