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Molecular Basis of Human Sperm Capacitation
27 Jul 2018
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In the early 50s, Austin and Chang independently described changes that are required for sperm to fertilize oocytes in vivo. These changes were originally grouped under the name of “capacitation” and were the first steps on the path of development of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in humans. Followed these initial and fundamental findings, a remarkable number of observations led to characterize the molecular steps...
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