Perfringolysin O as a useful tool to study human sperm physiology

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Pocognoni, Cristián A ^a   De Blas, Gerardo A ^a   Heuck, Alejandro P ^b   Belmonte, Silvia A ^a   Mayorga, Luis S ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

acrosome reaction; cholesterol; human sperm; Perfringolysin O; permeabilization

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TOXIN; CYTOLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CYTOPLASM; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84871919976     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.08.052     Document Type: Article

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