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The Capacitation Rate of Rat Sperm in Vitro

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The Sperm Cell

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In the rat, as in many rodents where semen is deposited directly into the uterus, it is believed that the principal site for capacitation is the oviduct. In vivo, there is a temporal correlation between the migration of fertilizing sperm into the ampulla and the appearance of oocyte-cumulus complexes there. It has been suggested (Gwatkin 77) that in some rodents cumulus cells play an important part in capacitation while in others (Hoppe & Whitten 74, Niwa & Chang 74) their importance was not shown.

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  1. Department of Embryology and Teratology, Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Medicine, Ramat-Aviv, Israel

    Ruth Shalgi, Ruth Kaplan & Laslo Nebel

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  1. Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Université Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay, France

    Jean André

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Shalgi, R., Kaplan, R., Nebel, L. (1983). The Capacitation Rate of Rat Sperm in Vitro. In: André, J. (eds) The Sperm Cell. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7675-7_9

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