Peptides in seminal fluid and their role in infertility: A potential role for opiorphin inhibition of neutral endopeptidase activity as a clinically relevant modulator of sperm motility: A review

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1334-1340

  Bosler, Jayme S ^a,b   Davies, Kelvin P ^a   Neal Perry, Genevieve S ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Male infertility; Seminal peptides; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN BINDING PROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLUSTERIN; FIBRONECTIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEPARIN BINDING PROTEIN; INHIBIN; LAMININ; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; MEMBRANE METALLOENDOPEPTIDASE; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; OPIORPHIN; OSTEOPONTIN; PEPTIDE; PLASMIN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITRONECTIN; GLUTAMINYL-ARGINYL-PHENYLALANYL-SERYL-ARGININE; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE INHIBITOR; OLIGOPEPTIDE; SALIVA PROTEIN;

ASTHENOSPERMIA; HUMAN; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; ENZYMOLOGY; FERTILITY; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; NEPRILYSIN; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEINASE INHIBITORY PROTEINS, SECRETORY; SALIVARY PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES; SEMEN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84909630913     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719114536473     Document Type: Review

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