Re: Is PAWP the 'real' sperm factor?

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 446-449

  Aarabi, Mahmoud ^a   Sutovsky, Peter ^b,c   Oko, Richard ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; PAWP PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CALCIUM SIGNALING; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; SPERM; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; OOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS;

EID: 84928998462     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1008-682X.145071     Document Type: Article

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