Humoral immune response to membrane components of Chlamydia trachomatis and expression of human 60 kDa heat shock protein in follicular fluid of in-vitro fertilization patients

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 925-929

  Neuer, A ^a,b   Lam, K N ^b   Tiller, F W ^c   Kiesel, L ^b   Witkin, S S ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Medical Immunological Laboratories   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Follicular fluid; Human heat shock protein; Infertility; IVF

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 0031001101     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.5.925     Document Type: Article

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