Role of Cholesterol in Sperm Capacitation1
Open Access
- 1 July 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biology of Reproduction
- Vol. 59 (1) , 7-11
- https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod59.1.7
Abstract
Forty years ago, M.C. Chang found that exposing capacitated rabbit sperm to seminal plasma made them incapable of fertilizing eggs in vivo [1]. The results of tKeywords
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