The role of carbohydrate recognition during human sperm-egg binding

Human Reproduction

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 566-577

  Clark, Gary F ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

andrology; assisted reproduction; fertilization; sperm function; zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; L SELECTIN; MONOSACCHARIDE; NEOGLYCOPROTEIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SIALIC ACID BINDING IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE LECTIN; SIALYL LEWIS X ANTIGEN; TETRASACCHARIDE;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BLASTOCYST; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXOCYTOSIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; HATCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNORECEPTOR TYROSINE BASED INHIBITION MOTIF; LABORATORY; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE RECIRCULATION; MALE FERTILITY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; TISSUE INJURY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 84874290379     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des447     Document Type: Article

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