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Abstract
Near an interface, sea urchin spermatozoa swim almost in circles. The direction is usually clockwise at the lower surface of a coverslip and counterclockwise at the upper surface of a glass slide, when viewed from above. Examination of demembranated spermatozoa has shown that Ca2+ regulates the direction of the circular motion of spermatozoa reactivated with adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This finding suggests that Ca2+ changes the chirality of the three-dimensional bending waves of sperm flagella.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID: 8274638 PMCID: PMC1225871 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(93)81210-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033