Behavioural switching during oscillations of intracellular Ca2+ concentration in freeswimming human sperm

• Main Authors: Elis Torrezan-Nitao (Author), Héctor Guidobaldi (Author), Laura Giojalas (Author), Christopher Barratt (Author), Stephen Publicover (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Bioscientifica, 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A human sperm must swim to the egg to fertilise it. To do this the sperm uses different types of swimming (behaviours) as they are needed. When we watch sperm swimming we see that they regularly change behaviour, sometimes repeatedly switching between two different types. Calcium ions inside cells a...