Can spermatozoa respond to changes in their redox status with the selective activation of gene transcription?

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 184-185

  Aitken, Robert John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; MESSENGER RNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RNA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LETTER; MITOCHONDRION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

HUMANS; MALE; MANGANESE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 84870503220     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: 15577716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2012.4715     Document Type: Letter

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