Acrosome-reacted mouse spermatozoa recovered from the perivitelline space can fertilize other eggs

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

Volumn 108, Issue 50, 2011, Pages 20008-20011

  Inoue, Naokazu ^a   Satouh, Yuhkoh ^b   Ikawa, Masahito ^a   Okabe, Masaru ^a   Yanagimachi, Ryuzo ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Fusion; IZUMO1; Oocyte; Spermatozoon

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CUMULUS CELL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MICE; OVUM; SPERMATOZOA; VITELLINE MEMBRANE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 84055200837     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116965108     Document Type: Article

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