Characterization of anti-sperm antibodies and their coding cDNA sequences by Epstein-Barr virus transformed B cell lines from lymphocytes of infertile women possessing anti-sperm antibodies

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 171-191

  Dimitrova Dikanarova, Dimitrina K ^a,b   Tsuji, Yoshiyuki ^a   Nakata, Yuko ^a   Shibahara, Hiroaki ^a   Mitsuo, Mizumi ^a   Hashimoto, Tomoko ^a   Furuyama, Jun Ichi ^a   Koyama, Koji ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Antisperm antibodies; cDNA sequences; Epstein barr virus transformation; Human monoclonal; Immunological infertility; Sperm immobilizing antibodies

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; SPERM ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; VIRUS CELL TRANSFORMATION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL TRANSFORMATION, VIRAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPITOPES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0030447697     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0378(96)00999-0     Document Type: Article

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