Head-to-head agglutination of ram and boar epididymal spermatozoa and evidence for an epididymal antagglutinin
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Bioscientifica in Reproduction
- Vol. 67 (1) , 181-189
- https://doi.org/10.1530/jrf.0.0670181
Abstract
Spermatozoa from the corpus epididymidis of boars and rams showed head-to-head agglutination when diluted. The occurrence of agglutination coincided with the appearance of motility but preceded the ability to bind to zona-free hamster eggs. Head-to-head agglutination was inhibited by the addition of caudal epididymal plasma. A protein acting as an antiagglutinin on spermatozoa from the corpus epididymidis was extracted from cauda epididymal plasma and partly purified.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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