WORLD OF REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY: Unique Regulator Attends to Sperm

WORLD OF REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY: Progesterone and Endocannabinoid Interaction Alters Sperm Activation

A recent study in Science finds that α/β-hydrolase domain-containing protein 2 (ABHD2) is a novel nongenomic progesterone receptor that holds the CatSper cation channel open while progesterone elevates sperm cytoplasmic calcium ion (Ca) levels and triggers sperm hyperactive motility. ABHD2 functions as a lipid hydrolase, breaking down arachidonoylglycerols (2-AG/1AG)—endocannabinoid components ...

Cancer/Testis genes in relation to sperm biology and function

Cancer testis antigens (CTAs), a large family of tumor-associated and immunogenic antigens expressed in human tumors of various histological origins, are highly restricted to the testis and trophoblast. CTAs have been identified as potent targets for tumor-specific immunotherapeutic advances and have immensely lead to the development of different clinical trials of CTA-based vaccine therapy bec...

Cranes of the World: 5. Comparative Reproductive Biology

Reproductive Biology of Pigs

Mfairs Banks attends seminar

E. Pendleton Banks, professor of an· thropology and chairman of the ·Museum of Man committee, was surprised to hear Wake Forest mentioned in a State Department staff meeting he observed in Washington, D.C., three weeks ago. · Banks was one of 11 academic specialists invited to the Scholar-Diplomat Seminar on European Affairs March. 11-12. . The only anthropologist present at the seii)inar, Bank...