Journal of Andrology Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Epididymis
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Effects of the c-ros null mutation and osmolality of the external medium on diffusion coefficients (D) for ODAF in different regions of mouse cauda sperm*{dagger}{ddagger}
 ES  PAc  MP  CD  PP

 Controls  17.2 ± 1.1  12.3 ± 1.1  3.71 ± 0.6  7.96 ± 1.6  3.11 ± 0.4
 c-ros Knockout  21.1 ± 1.9  16.2 ± 1.3  2.46 ± 0.2  5.84 ± 0.7  4.81 ± 1.7
 202 mmol/kg  41.7 ± 3.8  22.2 ± 2  13.7 ± 2.6  ...  10.9 ± 2.2
 300 mmol/kg  49.2 ± 6.3  27.5 ± 3.6  12.1 ± 2.4  ...  11.6 ± 3.5
 389 mmol/kg  42.5 ± 4.1  20.4 ± 2.8  10.1 ± 1.8  ...  14.1 ± 3.3


 *CD indicates cytoplasmic droplet; ES, equatorial segment; MP, midpiece; ODAF, 5-[N-octadecanoyl)aminofluorescein; PAc, postacrosome; and PP, principal piece.
 {dagger}D values are x 10-9 cm2 s-1.
 {ddagger}Values shown are means ± standard error of the mean of 30-35 sperm from 3 experiments.





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