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What does capacitation mean?

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Noun
  1. Enablement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. (zoology) The process of altering sperm to allow them to fertilize eggs.
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They found that cathine and norephedrine significantly stimulated capacitation in mouse sperm, while preventing the acrosome reaction.
Sperm cells must undergo capacitation, and those that do not go through the maturation stage do not have the capacity to fertilize oocytes.
Factors regulating changes of head-to-head agglutinability in boar spermatozoa during epididymal transit and capacitation in vitro.
The fallopian tubes are also needed for sperm capacitation and egg fertilisation.
Preparation techniques have been developed that select sperm with fertilising ability and promote capacitation in the test tube.

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