Initial evaluation of fertilin as an immunocontraceptive antigen and molecular cloning of the cynomolgus monkey fertilin β subunit

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 70-75

  Ramarao, Chodavarapu S ^a   Myles, Diana G ^a   White, Judith M ^b   Primakoff, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloning; Fertilin; Immunocontraceptive; Monkey

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; FERTILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPERMATOZOON; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADAM PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030069394     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199601)43:1<70::AID-MRD9>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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