Seminal vesicle protein SVS2 is required for sperm survival in the uterus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4145-4150

  Kawano, Natsuko ^a   Araki, Naoya ^b   Yoshida, Kaoru ^c   Hibino, Taku ^d   Ohnami, Naoko ^a   Makino, Maako ^a   Kanai, Seiya ^a   Hasuwa, Hidetoshi ^e   Yoshida, Manabu ^b   Miyado, Kenji ^a   Umezawa, Akihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOIN UNIVERSITY OF YOKOHAMA   (Japan)

^d SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrosomal reaction; Decapacitation; In vivo fertilization; Uterine sperm selection; Uterine spermicide

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; SEMINAL VESICLE PROTEIN 2; SILICON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL DEATH; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MALE SUBFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUBFERTILITY; UTERUS;

ACROSOMAL REACTION; DECAPACITATION; IN VIVO FERTILIZATION; UTERINE SPERM SELECTION; UTERINE SPERMICIDE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROSANILINE DYES; SEMINAL VESICLE SECRETORY PROTEINS; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERMATOZOA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UTERUS;

EID: 84896533547     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320715111     Document Type: Article

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