Sperm-egg interaction

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2012, Pages 477-502

  Evans, Janice P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

CD9; Cell adhesion; Cell cell fusion; Fertilization; IZUMO; Tetraspanin

Indexed keywords

ADAM PROTEIN; ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; CD9 ANTIGEN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; FERTILIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL ANCHORED PROTEIN; INTEGRIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE; PROTEIN IZUMO1; TETRASPANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DROSOPHILA; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPERM; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD9; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INTEGRINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVUM; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; PREGNANCY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; TETRASPANINS;

EID: 84857342577     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: 15451585     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physiol-020911-153339     Document Type: Article

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