Possible association of infertility with sperm-specific abnormality of CD46

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-88

  Kitamura, Masaya ^a,b   Matsumiya, Kiyomi ^b   Yamanaka, Masaki ^b   Takahara, Siroh ^b   Hara, Tomoko ^a   Matsumoto, Misako ^a   Namiki, Mikio ^b,d   Okuyama, Akihiko ^b   Seya, Tsukasa ^a,c  

^a CENTER FOR ADULT DISEASES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CD46; Infertility; Sperm egg interactions

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE COFACTOR PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM;

ACROSOME; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD46; EPITOPE MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0031004157     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0378(97)01017-6     Document Type: Article

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