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The Role of Calcium Signaling during Oocyte Activation


Jun-He Hu*
Department of Life Science, Yulin College, Yulin 719000, China
Abstract: Calcium signaling is one of the most important second messenger, which has extensive roles in cell life activities: cytoplast, cell division and cell apotosis etc. In sperm and oocyte, it is proved that the calcium signals have great roles in series of complicated processes: capacitation, acrosome reaction, oocyte maturation, fertilization, embryo cleavage etc. The article summarizes the Ca2+ release mechanism, Ca2+ signaling transduction ways and Ca2+ functions in oocyte activation.


CSTR: 32200.14.cjcb.2006.06.0008