The age-related changes in the incidence of 'natural' anti-sperm antibodies suggest they are not auto-/isoantibodies

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 65-71

  Kalaydjiev, Svetoslav K ^a   Dimitrova, Dimitrina K ^a   Trifonova, Nedka L ^a   Fichorova, Raina N ^a   Nakov, Lyudmil S ^a   Masharova, Natalia G ^b   Raicheva, Yvette N ^c   Simeonova, Maria N ^d   Todorova, Evgenia I ^e   Todorov, Velislav I ^f  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b Blood Transfusion Center   (Bulgaria)

^c University Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology 'Maichin Dom' Bulgaria   (Bulgaria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY PLEVEN   (Bulgaria)

^e Mother and Child' Home   (Bulgaria)

^f Lovech District Hospital   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Aging; Exogenous antigens; Natural sperm antibodies

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; ALLOANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; AUTOANTIBODY; IMMOBILIZED ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; AGING; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISOANTIBODIES; ISOANTIGENS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0036095139     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0897.2002.1o054.x     Document Type: Article

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