...-piperazinecarboxamide (BCTC) and capsazepine. When capsaicin or gingerol was applied to wild-type cells in the presence of Ruthenium Red, a large proportion lost motility while flagella remained attached, suggesting that flagella stop contributing to motility, at least in part, through a TRP-channel-independent pathway...

...Taeck J. Jeon; Runchi Gao; Hyeseon Kim; Ara Lee; Pyeonghwa Jeon; Peter N. Devreotes; Min Zhao ABSTRACT Motile cells manifest increased migration speed and directionality in gradients of stimuli, including chemoattractants, electrical potential and substratum stiffness. Here, we demonstrate...

...Myrina Boulais; Marc Suquet; Eve Julie Arsenault-Pernet; Florent Malo; Isabelle Queau; Patricia Pignet; Dominique Ratiskol; Jacqueline Le Grand; Matthias Huber; Jacky Cosson ABSTRACT Investigating the roles of chemical factors stimulating and inhibiting sperm motility is required to understand...