reproductive system
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• female mice are fertile
• male mice exhibit normal spermatogenesis as well as normal sperm morphology, sperm motility and capacitation
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• impaired sperm migration from the uterus into the oviduct
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• severely impaired fertilization in vivo (2.3% vs. 70% of that in control mice)
• however, sperm are able to fertilize cumulus-intact oocytes in vitro
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• in vitro, sperm are unable to bind zona-intact oocytes
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cellular
• impaired sperm migration from the uterus into the oviduct
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