Starting a new life: Sperm PLC-zeta mobilizes the Ca 2+ signal that induces egg activation and embryo development: An essential phospholipase C with implications for male infertility

BioEssays

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 126-134

  Nomikos, Michail ^a,b   Swann, Karl ^a   Lai, F Anthony ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Calcium signalling; Fertilization; Oocyte activation; Phospholipase C; Sperm

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; MEMBRANE LIPID; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C ZETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; REVIEW; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INOSITOL 1,4,5-TRISPHOSPHATE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; OOCYTES; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PREGNANCY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84855808340     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100127     Document Type: Review

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