Action of steroids and plant triterpenoids on CatSper Ca2+ channels in human sperm
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Action of steroids and plant triterpenoids on CatSper Ca2+ channels in human sperm.
The sperm-specific Ca channel CatSper (cation channel of sperm) controls the intracellular Ca concentration and, thereby, the swimming behavior of sperm. Human CatSper is activated by progesterone (1, 2), an oviductal hormone, which stimulates Ca influx and motility responses. By patch-clamp recording from human sperm, Mannowetz et al. (3) studied the action of the steroids pregnenolone sulfate...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1717929115