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IT has been previously shown that spermatozoa of the rat and rabbit require to undergo some form of physiological preparation within the female reproductive tract before they are capable of fertilizing eggs1. This preparatory process, known as capacita-tion, has hitherto lacked more precise description.
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AUSTIN, C., BISHOP, M. Capacitation of Mammalian Spermatozoa. Nature 181, 851 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181851a0
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