Capacitation
Capacitation involves changes in the membrane of the head of the sperm that are necessary to allow attachment to, and penetration of, the egg.
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Capacitation -- A process that sperm undergo as they travel through the woman's reproductive tract. Capacitation enables the sperm to penetrate the egg.
Catheter -- A hollow flexible tube used to aspirate or inject fluids.
Capacitation - The changes sperm go through after ejaculation that enables them to fertilize an egg.
Catheter - A plastic tube used for medical procedures.
Capacitation: The changes that a sperm goes through to be capable of penetrating the layers covering the egg. It involves the sequentially timed release of a series of enzymes, which allows the sperm to digest a passage through those layers.
Capacitation
A process the sperm must undergo that enables fertilization.
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Capacitation
The alteration of sperm during the passage through the female reproductive tract that gives them the capacity to penetrate and fertilize the ovum.
Catheter
a flexible tube used for aspirating or injecting fluids ...
Capacitation
The process by which sperm become capable of fertilizing an egg
Catheter
A flexible tube used for aspirating or injecting fluids ...
Capacitation - A change in sperm that occurs as they travel through the female reproductive tract that enables the sperm to penetrate and fertilize an egg.
Cannula - a hollow tube used, for example, to inseminate sperm artificially Capacitation - the process by which sperm become capable of fertilizing an egg Catheter - a flexible tube used for aspirating or injecting fluids ...
Sperm are mixed with hamster eggs in a laboratory. The number of sperm that penetrate the egg (sperm capacitation index) is measured. This test is done most often at special fertility centers that do in vitro fertilization Opens New Window.
SPINKL, a Kazal-type serine protease inhibitor-like protein purified from mouse seminal vesicle fluid, is able to inhibit sperm capacitation.
Reproduction, 136(5): 559-71. [Abstract] [Full-text] ...
 See also: Egg, Sperm, Fertility, Pregnancy, Fertilization
  
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