Immune response of male baboons to testis-specific LDH-C4

Contraception

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 93-98

  Goldberg, Erwin ^a   VandeBerg, John L ^b   Mahony, Mary C ^c   Doncel, Gustavo F ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Baboon; Immunocontraception; LDH C4; Male contraceptive

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; EPITOPE; ISOENZYME; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SPERM ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIGEN; TETANUS TOXIN; VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BABOON; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE FERTILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS BIOPSY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNITY; BIOPSY; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNIZATION; ISOENZYMES; KINETICS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; PAPIO; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0034760121     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(01)00227-X     Document Type: Article

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