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MEMBRANE LIPID DYNAMICS DURING HUMAN SPERM CAPACITATION
Paz Martínez1 and Antoni Morros2
1 Instituto de Biología Fundamental. Unidad de Inmunología,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
Spain.
2 Unitat de Biofísica. Departament de Bioquímica
i de Biologia Molecular,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
Received 05/06/96; Accepted 06/18/96; On-line 07/01/96
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1. Abstract
- 2. Introduction
- 3. Lipid composition of mature sperm
- 4. Lipid changes during capacitation
- 4.1. Cholesterol efflux from sperm membrane
- 4.2. Cholesterol acceptors
- 5. Lipid domains and membrane fluidity
- 5.1. Macrodomains and microdomains
- 5.2. Biophysical, biochemical and cytochemical techniques
for the analysis of lipid regionalization in the plasma membrane
of sperm
- 5.3. Mechanisms accounting for the presence of distinct lipid
domains
- 6. Role of fusogenic lipids in capacitation and acrosome reaction
- 7. A model for organization of lipids during capacitation
- 7.1. Cholesterol efflux
- 7.2. Effects of cholesterol efflux
- 8. Acknowledgments
- 9. References
- 10. Entire manuscript
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