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Rhodopsin and melanopsin coexist in mammalian sperm cells and activate different signaling pathways for thermotaxis

Recently, various opsin types, known to be involved in vision, were demonstrated to be present in human and mouse sperm cells and to be involved there in thermosensing for thermotaxis. In vision, each opsin type is restricted to specific cells. The situation in this respect in sperm cells is not kno...

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Autores principales: Roy, Debarun, Levi, Kohava, Kiss, Vladimir, Nevo, Reinat, Eisenbach, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6954197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31924821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56846-5