Antigenic cross-reactivity of human tracheal mucin with human sperm and trophoblasts correlates with the expression of mucin 8 gene messenger ribonucleic acid in reproductive tract tissues

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 316-326

  D'Cruz, O J ^a   Dunn, T S ^a   Pichan, P ^a   Haas G G , Jr ^a   Sachdev, G P ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisperm antibodies; monoclonal antibodies; mucin glycoprotein; sperm agglutination; tracheal mucin

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTING ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MUCIN; SPERM ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TRACHEA MUCUS; TROPHOBLAST; UTERINE CERVIX;

EID: 0030015720     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)58460-x     Document Type: Article

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