Unresolved questions concerning mammalian sperm acrosomal exocytosis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Buffone, Mariano G ^a   Hirohashi, Noritaka ^b   Gerton, George L ^c  

^a Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental National Research Council of Argentina ^*  (Argentina)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrosomal exocytosis; Capacitation; Fertilization; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETION (PROCESS); SHORT SURVEY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; TESTIS; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84903766119     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.117911     Document Type: Short Survey

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