Header Logo
Keywords
Last Name
Institution
Announcement

You can now add alternative names! Click here to add other names that you've published under.

Acrosome

"Acrosome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
The cap-like structure covering the anterior portion of SPERM HEAD. Acrosome, derived from LYSOSOMES, is a membrane-bound organelle that contains the required hydrolytic and proteolytic enzymes necessary for sperm penetration of the egg in FERTILIZATION.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Acrosome" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Acrosome" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 3 publications over 3 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1997 and 2002 and 2003
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
People Expand Description
_
Similar Concepts expand description
_
Top Journals expand description