Binding of rat and ovine epididymis-specific prealbumins (PES) to rat spermatozoa without effect of heterologous immunization on rat fertility

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 483-489

  Fournier Delpech, S ^a   Lewin, L M ^b   Oschry, Y ^b   Combarnous, Y ^a  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Fertility; Heterologous immunization; o PES; Specific protein; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; PREALBUMIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CYTOMETRY; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILITY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; MALE; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; PREALBUMIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SHEEP; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; CAPUT; OVIS;

EID: 0030993683     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199708)47:4<483::AID-MRD15>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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