Humoral immune response to equine chorionic gonadotropin in ewes: Association with major histocompatibility complex and interference with subsequent fertility

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 209-218

  Roy, François ^a   Combes, Bruno ^b   Vaiman, Daniel ^c   Cribiu, Edmond P ^c   Pobel, Thierry ^b   Delétang, François ^b   Combarnous, Yves ^a   Guillou, Florian ^a   Maurel, Marie Christine ^a  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b SANOFI   (France)

^c Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN ANTIBODY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP;

AGING; ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BREEDING; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HORSES; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; KINETICS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 0033056913     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.1.209     Document Type: Article

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