The semen pH affects sperm motility and capacitation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Zhou, Ji ^a   Chen, Li ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Li, Hongjun ^b   Hong, Zhiwei ^a   Xie, Min ^a   Chen, Shengrong ^a   Yao, Bing ^a   Drevet, Joël R ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; MALE; PH; SEMEN PH; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; CALCIUM; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; SOLUTIONS; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84940520053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132974     Document Type: Article

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