Cases of human infertility are associated with the absence of P34H, an epididymal sperm antigen

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1018-1024

  Boué, Franck ^a   Sullivan, Robert ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN P34H; EPIDIDYMIS PROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0029941015     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.5.1018     Document Type: Article

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