Are TRP channels involved in sperm development and function?

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 349, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 749-764

  Darszon, Alberto ^a   Sánchez Cárdenas, Claudia ^a   Orta, Gerardo ^a   Sánchez Tusie, Ana A ^a   Beltrán, Carmen ^a   López González, Ignacio ^a   Granados González, Gisela ^b   Treviño, Claudia L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ca2+ channels; Spermatozoa; STIM; Store operated calcium entry; Trp channels

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM RELEASE ACTIVATED CALCIUM CHANNEL 1; POLYCYSTIN 1; POLYCYSTIN 2; STROMAL INTERACTION MOLECULE 1; STROMAL INTERACTION MOLECULE 2; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 1; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 2; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 3; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 5; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 6; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M1; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M2; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M3; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M4; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M5; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M6; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M7; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M8; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 2; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 3; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 4;

ACROSOME REACTION; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNELS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84866412451     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-012-1397-5     Document Type: Review

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