The physiology of bicarbonate transporters in mammalian reproduction

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Ying ^a   Wang, Deng Ke ^a   Chen, Li Ming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Acid base transporter; Epithelia; Male reproductive tract; Ph regulation; Reproduction; Sperm capacitation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BICARBONATE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; BICARBONATE SODIUM COTRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL;

ACID BASE BALANCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL PH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; EPIDIDYMIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; VAGINA; ANIMAL; EPITHELIUM; GENITAL SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

MAMMALIA;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ANIMALS; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; BICARBONATES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENITALIA; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; ION PUMPS; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MAMMALS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SODIUM-BICARBONATE SYMPORTERS;

EID: 84864020925     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.096826     Document Type: Short Survey

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