Sperm immobilization antibodies in infertile male sera decrease the acrosome reaction: A possible mechanism for immunologic infertility

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 413-416

  Taşdemir, Işik ^a,d   Taşdemir, Murat ^b   Fukuda, June ^c   Kodama, Hideya ^c   Matsui, Toshihiko ^c   Tanaka, Toshinobu ^c  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Sevgi Hospital   (Turkey)

^c AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

acrosome reaction; infertile male sera; sperm immobilization antibody

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; CALCIMYCIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ACROSOME REACTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ACROSOME; ANTIBODIES; CALCIMYCIN; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SPERMATOZOA;

PISUM SATIVUM; SATIVUM;

EID: 0029998470     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02066174     Document Type: Article

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