Immunoreactivity and in-vitro effect on human sperm-egg binding of antibodies against peptides corresponding to bonnet monkey zona pellucida-3 glycoprotein

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2664-2670

  Afzalpurkar, Abhijit ^a   Shibahara, Hiroaki ^b   Hasegawa, Akiko ^b   Koyama, Koji ^b   Gupta, S K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti peptide antibodies; In vitro contraception; Native protein reactivity; Synthetic peptides; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE; GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0031435375     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.12.2664     Document Type: Article

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