Identification of epitopes of monoclonal antibodies to porcine zona pellucida 3β glycoprotein, a homologue of the Mouse/Human sperm receptor

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-32

  Afzalpurkar, Abhijit ^a   Gupta, S K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

ELISA; Epitope mapping; Porcine zona pellucida; Synthetic peptides

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GLYCINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0030876871     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.1997.tb00272.x     Document Type: Article

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