Immunoblot detection of decreased antibodies to haptoglobin-like protein in the serum of infertile women with or without endometriosis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 178-185

  Berkova, Nadia ^b   Lemay, André ^b   De Grandpré, Pierre ^a   Goupil, Serge ^b   Maheux, Rodolphe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Université Laval   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPTOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNODIFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HAPTOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030907613     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.178     Document Type: Article

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