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Disease relevance of Sperm Head

 

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  • The mutagenic and clastogenic (chromosome breaking) effects of the flame retardant Tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate (Tris-BP) were investigated in two mammalian in vivo assays, the bone marrow micronucleus test and the abnormal sperm head assay [6].
  • In the micronucleus test, Tris-BP was a weak clastogen, whereas in the abnormal sperm head assay, Tris-BP was observed to be strongly mutagenic [6].
  • In some patients with severely amorphous sperm heads, protein 4.1 had an abnormal sub-cellular localisation (tail instead of head) and appeared as high-molecular-weight isoforms, especially a 135 kDa species instead of the 82 kDa isoform seen in fertile sperm [7].
  • Immunodepletion of gamma-tubulin and associated molecules from the egg extract before sperm head incubation prevents the change in microtubule-organizing activity of the sperm heads [8].
  • The cytoskeletal calyx structure surrounding part of the nucleus of the mammalian sperm head contains two major kinds of basic proteins, i.e., the approximately 60-kD calicin and a group of very basic (IEP > pH 10) polypeptides ranging in size from approximately 58 to approximately 100 kD ("multiple band proteins," MBPs) [9].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Sperm Head

 

Biological context of Sperm Head

 

Anatomical context of Sperm Head

 

Associations of Sperm Head with chemical compounds

  • This activity was labile to freezing and stimulated by 0.04% Triton X-100, and thus differed from that of sperm heads [22].
  • Treatment of caput or cauda epididymal rat sperm with a low concentration (0.05%) of the cationic detergent cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and 30 mM 2-mercaptoethanol solubilized most of the sperm structures except for the sperm head and the outer dense fiber-connecting piece complex [23].
  • The elevation of cyclic AMP concentrations in flagella-less sea urchin sperm heads [12].
  • A model is proposed in which phospholipid scrambling induces the formation of an apical membrane raft in the sperm head surface that enables albumin mediated efflux of cholesterol [24].
  • Addition of albumin caused cholesterol efflux, but only in bicarbonate-responding cells that exhibited virtually no filipin labeling in the sperm head area [24].
 

Gene context of Sperm Head

 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Sperm Head

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