Does advancing male age influence the expression levels and localisation patterns of phospholipase C zeta (PLCς) in human sperm?

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Yeste, Marc ^a,f   Jones, Celine ^a   Amdani, Siti Nornadhirah ^a,b   Yelumalai, Suseela ^a,g   Mounce, Ginny ^a   Da Silva, Sarah J Martins ^c,d   Child, Tim ^a,e   Coward, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e Oxford Business Park North   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PLCZ1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTE; PATHOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE PHOSPHOLIPASE C; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84976428046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep27543     Document Type: Article

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