Antibody responses and infertility in mice following oral immunization with attenuated Salmonella typhimurium expressing recombinant murine ZP3

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-41

  Zhang, Xin ^a   Lou, Ya Huan ^b   Koopman, Marcel ^a   Doggett, Teresa ^a   Tung, Kenneth S K ^b   Curtiss III, Roy ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VAGINA SECRETION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VACCINES;

EID: 0031029515     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.1.33     Document Type: Article

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