New insights into epididymal function in relation to sperm maturation

Reproduction

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Dacheux, Jean Louis ^a   Dacheux, Françoise ^a  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADAM PROTEIN; ALBUMIN; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; ANDROGEN BINDING PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA N ACETYLHEXOSAMINIDASE; BICARBONATE; CALCIUM; CELL PROTEIN; CLUSTERIN; GELSOLIN; GLUCOSIDASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLYCOSIDASE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; LACTOFERRIN; LIPOCALIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OSTEONECTIN; PRION PROTEIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEOME; SECRETORY PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSFERRIN; VITAMIN D BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL INTERACTION; EPIDIDYMIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BICARBONATES; CALCIUM; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM MATURATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TRANSPORT; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84893178001     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-13-0420     Document Type: Review

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