MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT 78(8) 611-620 2011年8月 [査読有り]
Mammalian sperm flagella have filament-forming Tektin proteins (Tektin 1-5) reported to be involved in the stability and structural complexity of flagella. Male mice null for Tektin3 produce spermatozoa with reduced forward progression and increas...
JOURNAL OF ELECTRON MICROSCOPY 60 S31-S42 2011年8月 [査読有り]
Fertilization occurs when the sperm penetrates the egg, resulting in the combination of paternal and maternal genomes for the propagation of generations. To perform the task, the mammalian sperm membrane system, constructed during spermatogenesis,...
FERTILITY AND STERILITY 95(7) 2431.e9-11 2011年6月 [査読有り]
Objective: To describe the delivery of a healthy female infant after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) using pentoxifylline-activated sperm from a patient with Kartagener's syndrome.
Design: Case report.
Setting: Private assisted reproductiv...
M. Maekawa   C. Ito   Y. Toyama   F. Suzuki-Toyota   E. Fujita   T. Momoi   K. Toshimori   
ANDROLOGIA 43(3) 180-188 2011年6月 [査読有り]
P>RA175, a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily, plays an important role in cell adhesion, and RA175 gene-deficient mice (RA175-/-) show oligoastheno-teratozoospermia. To understand the function of RA175, location in the testis and the morp...
Ban Sato   Yohko U. Katagiri   Kenji Miyado   Nozomu Okino   Makoto Ito   Hidenori Akutsu   Hajime Okita   Akihiro Umezawa   Junichiro Fujimoto   Kiyotaka Toshimori   Nobutaka Kiyokawa   
BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 11 22 2011年4月 [査読有り]
Background: Lipid rafts enriched in glycosphingolipids (GSLs), cholesterol and signaling molecules play an essential role not only for signal transduction started by ligand binding, but for intracellular events such as organization of actin, intra...