A Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Is Involved in the Acrosome Reaction of Human Sperm Initiated by Recombinant Human ZP31
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- 1 September 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biology of Reproduction
- Vol. 67 (3) , 782-788
- https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.102.004580
Abstract
One of the essential steps in mammalian fertilization is the acrosome reaction (AR), a modified exocytotic event in the sperm head that occurs upon cKeywords
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