Involvement of sperm plasma membrane and cytoskeletal proteins in human male infertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 697-704

  Salvolini, Eleonora ^a   Buldreghini, Eddi ^a   Lucarini, Guendalina ^a   Vignini, Arianna ^a   Lenzi, Andrea ^b   Di Primio, Roberto ^a   Balercia, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asthenozoospermia; cytoskeleton; immunohisto chemistry; plasma membrane; spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; CD9 ANTIGEN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; EZRIN; F ACTIN; LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN CDC42; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDRATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPID BILAYER; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; ORGAN DONOR; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERM PLASMA MEMBRANE; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ACTINS; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD9; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; TUBULIN; WATER;

EID: 84875232111     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.10.042     Document Type: Article

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