Effects of Low Concentrations of Nitric Oxide on the Zona Pellucida Binding Ability of Human Spermatozoa

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1987 • 5,027 citations

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1992 • 4,437 citations

Biochemistry of Nitric Oxide and Its Redox-Activated Forms

1992 • 2,725 citations

Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species, Lipid Peroxidation, and Human Sperm Function

1989 • 1,218 citations

Capacitation of mouse spermatozoa: II. Protein tyrosine phosphorylation and capacitation are regulated by a cAMP-dependent pathway

1995 • 796 citations

Antagonistic action of imidazolineoxyl N-oxides against endothelium-derived relaxing factor/.bul.NO (nitric oxide) through a radical reaction

1993 • 569 citations

Role of glutathione peroxidase in protecting mammalian spermatozoa from loss of motility caused by spontaneous lipid peroxidation

1989 • 544 citations

Ca2+- and phospholipid-independent activation of protein kinase C by selective oxidative modification of the regulatory domain.

1989 • 409 citations

Reactive oxygen species, lipid peroxidation and enzymatic defence systems in human spermatozoa

1995 • 380 citations

Human sperm hyperactivation and capacitation as parts of an oxidative process☆

1993 • 333 citations

A positive role for the superoxide anion in triggering hyperactivation and capacitation of human spermatozoa

1993 • 304 citations

Andrology: Effects of nitric oxide on human spermatozoa: evidence that nitric oxide decreases sperm motility and induces sperm toxicity

1995 • 220 citations

An in vitro promoting role for hydrogen peroxide in human sperm capacitation

1994 • 212 citations

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1996 • 202 citations

Capacitation and acrosome reactions in human spermatozoa monitored by a chlortetracycline fluorescence assay

1987 • 190 citations

Low Levels of Nitric Oxide Promote Human Sperm CapacitationIn Vitro

1995 • 182 citations

Hydrogen Peroxide is Involved in Hamster Sperm Capacitation in Vitro1

1991 • 178 citations

Effect of Sperm Lipid Peroxidation on Fertilization

1996 • 174 citations

Effect of sodium nitroprusside on sperm motility, viability, and lipid peroxidation

1994 • 165 citations

Identification of nitric oxide synthase in human uterus

1995 • 160 citations

Nitric oxide inhibition of human sperm motility

1995 • 155 citations

Localization by indirect immunofluorescence of nitric oxide synthase in mouse and human spermatozoa

1996 • 95 citations

Characterization of a decapacitation factor associated with epididymal mouse spermatozoa

1990 • 86 citations

Possible Role of Nitric Oxide on Fertile and Asthenozoospermic Infertile Human Sperm Functions

1996 • 80 citations

Ca2+-related changes in the mouse sperm capacitation state: a possible role for Ca2+-ATPase

1992 • 79 citations

Evidence for nitric oxide mediation of contractile activity in isolated strips of the human Fallopian tube

1997 • 72 citations

Elevated Nitric Oxide Concentration in the Seminal Plasma of Infertile Males: Nitric Oxide Inhibits Sperm Motility

1996 • 58 citations

Ovary and ovulation: Nitric oxide concentrations in the follicular fluid and apoptosis of granulosa cells in human follicles

1996 • 58 citations

Phorbol Esters Stimulate Cyclic Adenosine 3′, 5′-Monophosphate Accumulation in Hamster Spermatozoa during in Vitro Capacitation1

1989 • 33 citations

Comparison of two methods to obtain hemizonae pellucidae for sperm function tests

1995 • 14 citations

The use of zona-free aged unfertilized human oocytes as a predictor for successful subzonal insemination

1995 • 4 citations