Vaccine for contraception targeting sperm

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 171, Issue , 1999, Pages 193-201

  Naz, Rajesh K ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPITOPE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SPERM ANTIGEN; VACCINE;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANTIBODY TITER; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032727013     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1999.tb01349.x     Document Type: Review

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