Title : The pentose phosphate pathway plays an essential role in supporting human sperm capacitation.

Pub. Date : 2010 May 1

PMID : 19819434






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1 The G6PD inhibitor DHEA and the inhibitors of NADPH oxidase apocynin and diphenylene iodonium (DPI) prevented both superoxide generation and capacitation in human spermatozoa, but whereas DPI and DHEA inhibited PPP, apocynin did not influence it, suggesting that PPP activation during capacitation is not a response to increased oxidative stress but exerts a role by supplying reducing equivalents to oxygen. Superoxides glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase Homo sapiens