Gamete activation: Basic knowledge and clinical applications

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 420-439

  Tosti, Elisabetta ^a   Ménézo, Yves ^b  

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^b London Fertility Associates   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial oocyte activation; Assisted reproductive technology; Fertilization; Gamete activation; ICSI; IVF; Oocyte; Reproduction; Sperm

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ACROSOME REACTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL CYCLE PARAMETERS; CELL FUSION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL QUIESCENCE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXOCYTOSIS; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE ACTIVATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE ACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM ACTIVATION; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; UROGENITAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ANIMAL; ETHICS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84976340620     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmw014     Document Type: Article

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