Behavioral mechanism during human sperm chemotaxis: involvement of hyperactivation.
When mammalian spermatozoa become capacitated they acquire, among other activities, chemotactic responsiveness and the ability to exhibit occasional events of hyperactivated motility--a vigorous motility type with large amplitudes of head displacement. Although a number of roles have been proposed f...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22163296/?tool=EBI |