Head and flagella subcompartmental proteomic analysis of human spermatozoa

Proteomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-74

  Baker, Mark A ^a   Naumovski, Nenad ^a   Hetherington, Louise ^a   Weinberg, Anita ^a   Velkov, Tony ^b   Aitken, R John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Cell biology; ESI MS MS; Spermatogenesis; Superoxide; Tandem mass spectra

Indexed keywords

SUPEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL TYPE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON TRANSFER DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLAGELLUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLAGELLA; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEINS; PROTEOME; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84872388084     PISSN: 16159853     EISSN: 16159861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201200350     Document Type: Article

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