Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 5, Supplement , Pages 2230-2242 , May 2009

Phospholipase C zeta undergoes dynamic changes in its pattern of localization in sperm during capacitation and the acrosome reaction

Received 5 November 2007 ,Revised 2 May 2008 ,Accepted 5 May 2008.

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 C.Y. has nothing to disclose. P.G. has nothing to disclose. K.C. has nothing to disclose. L.C.D. has nothing to disclose. J.P. has nothing to disclose.

 Supported by a Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) project grant (J.P.) and a Fellowship from the Gobierno de Aragon-Caja Immaculada (Spain) (P.G.).

 C.Y., P.G., and K.C. contributed equally to this work.

PII: S0015-0282(08)01125-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.05.021

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 5, Supplement , Pages 2230-2242 , May 2009

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