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The Capacitation-Apoptosis Highway: Oxysterols and Mammalian Sperm Function
14 Apr 2011
Abstract excerpt
The notion that densely packed populations of spermatozoa generate toxicants that inhibit respiration has been around since the 1920s, when the concept of allelostasis (an increase in oxygen uptake that accompanies the dilution of sperm populations) was born [1]. It was not until 1946 that Tosic and Walton [2] identified the molecule responsible for this allelostatic effect in bull spermatozoa as hydrogen...
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