Thermotaxis of human sperm cells in extraordinarily shallow temperature gradients over a wide range

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Bahat, Anat ^a   Caplan, S Roy ^a   Eisenbach, Michael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; HUMANS; MALE; RABBITS; SPERMATOZOA; TEMPERATURE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 84864365277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041915     Document Type: Article

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