Acrosome Reaction
"Acrosome Reaction" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Changes that occur to liberate the enzymes of the ACROSOME of a sperm (SPERMATOZOA). Acrosome reaction allows the sperm to penetrate the ZONA PELLUCIDA and enter the OVUM during FERTILIZATION.
| Descriptor ID |
D020101
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G08.686.784.277.800.100
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| Concept/Terms |
Acrosome Reaction- Acrosome Reaction
- Acrosome Reactions
- Reaction, Acrosome
- Reactions, Acrosome
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Acrosome Reaction" by people in Profiles.
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Kumar A, Mishra AK, Singh V, Yadav S, Saxena A, Garg SK, Swain DK. Molecular and functional insights into Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) in bull spermatozoa. Theriogenology. 2019 Apr 01; 128:207-217.
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Salicioni AM, Platt MD, Wertheimer EV, Arcelay E, Allaire A, Sosnik J, Visconti PE. Signalling pathways involved in sperm capacitation. Soc Reprod Fertil Suppl. 2007; 65:245-59.