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Zinc: A small molecule with a big impact on sperm function

Zinc is an essential mineral, but our understanding of its uses in the body is limited. Capitalizing on approaches available in the model system Caenorhabditis elegans, Zhao and colleagues show that zinc transduces a signal that induces sperm to become motile. This is an enigmatic process because sp...

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Autor principal: Chu, Diana S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5991634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29879100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006204