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In most mammals, chemosensation represents the
dominant sensory modality and conspecific chemical communication
strategies control complex social and sexual behaviors. Species- and
gender-specific information about individuality, social and
reproductive status is conveyed by an elusive class of chemical cues
– pheromones – that are mainly detected by the specialized
vomeronasal organ. Despite their fundamental significance, the
basic mechanisms of vomeronasal pheromone sensing...
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Given the prime biological significance of
fertilization, surprisingly few consolidated findings on key
pre-fusion events such as sperm capacitation or chemotaxis are
currently available. Navigation of sperm along chemical gradients
inside the female genital tract has long been controversially
discussed, but recent evidence has established the existence of
mammalian sperm chemotaxis beyond doubt. However, the basic
molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying movement of sperm
towards a chemoattractant source...
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July
21st -
25th 2008:
ISOT / AChemS meeting in San
Francisco, California
Sept 12th
2008: Research Day of the Junges Kollegs of the Academy of
Sciences NRW
Feb 1st - 6th 2009: Keystone
Symposium on "Frontiers in Reproductive Biology and Regulation of
Fertility" in Santa Fe, New Mexico
March 25th - 29th 2009:
8. Meeting of the German Neuroscience
Society in Göttingen
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