Relationship between unexplained infertility and human leukocyte antigens and expression of circulating autogeneic and allogeneic antisperm antibodies

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 199-202

  Omu, A E ^a   Al Qattan, F ^a   Ismail, A A ^a   Al Taher, S ^a   Al Busiri, N ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN; HLA DR6 ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFERTILITY; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANTIBODIES; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HLA ANTIGENS; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HLA-D ANTIGENS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0033371915     PISSN: 03906663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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