Niflumic acid disrupts marine spermatozoan chemotaxis without impairing the spatiotemporal detection of chemoattractant gradients

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1477-1487

  Guerrero, Adán ^a,b   Espinal, Jesús ^c   Wood, Christopher D ^a   Rendón, Juan M ^d   Carneiro, Jorge ^b   Martínez Mekler, Gustavo ^c,e   Darszon, Alberto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ca2+ signaling; Chemotaxis; Niflumic acid; Sperm

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; CHEMOATTRACTANT; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; NIFLUMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LYTECHINUS; LYTECHINUS PICTUS; MARINE MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON;

CA2+ SIGNALING; CHEMOTAXIS; NIFLUMIC ACID; SPERM;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOTAXIS; FLAGELLA; ION CHANNELS; MALE; NIFLUMIC ACID; OLIGOPEPTIDES; SEA URCHINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM TRANSPORT; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84877903604     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.121442     Document Type: Article

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