Physiological and proteomic approaches to understanding human sperm function: Prefertilization events

The Genetics of Male Infertility

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 77-97

  Conner, Sarah J ^a,b   Lefièvre, Linda ^a   Kirkman Brown, Jackson ^a,b   Machado Oliveira, Gisela S M ^a   Michelangeli, Frank ^a   Publicover, Stephen J ^a   Barratt, Christopher L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Assisted Conception Unit Birmingham Women'es Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcium signaling; Capacitation; Proteomics; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872017893     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-176-5_5     Document Type: Chapter

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