Rheotaxis facilitates upstream navigation of mammalian sperm cells

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Kantsler, Vasily ^a,c,d   Dunkel, Jörn ^a,e   Blayney, Martyn ^b   Goldstein, Raymond E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Bourn Hall Clinic ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMOTAXIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; RHEOTAXIS; SPERMATOZOON; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE; VISCOMETRY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84902313439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02403.001     Document Type: Article

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