Infertility in female rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) alloimmunized with the rabbit zona pellucida protein ZPB either as a purified recombinant protein or expressed by recombinant myxoma virus

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 606-613

  Kerr, P J ^a   Jackson, R J ^a   Robinson, A J ^a   Swan, J ^a   Silvers, L ^a   French, N ^a   Clarke, H ^a   Hall, D F ^a   Holland, M K ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALLOIMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; POXVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; EGG PROTEINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MYXOMA VIRUS; OVARY; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MYXOMA VIRUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; POXVIRIDAE;

EID: 0032809079     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.3.606     Document Type: Article

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