Calcium oscillations, oocyte activation, and phospholipase C zeta

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 740, Issue , 2012, Pages 1095-1121

  Kashir, Junaid ^a   Jones, Celine ^a   Coward, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assisted oocyte activation (AOA); Assisted reproductive technology (ART); Calcium; Fertilisation; Infertility; Oocyte; Oocyte activation; Phospholipase C (PLC); Phospholipase C zeta (PLCzeta); Sperm

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CALCIUM ION; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHOLIPASE C BETA1; PHOSPHOLIPASE C GAMMA1; PHOSPHOLIPASE C ZETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM BINDING; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; OOCYTES; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE PHOSPHOLIPASE C;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84859916987     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2888-2_50     Document Type: Article

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