Basis, diagnosis and treatment of immunological infertility in men

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 35-45

  McLachlan, Robert I ^a,b  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Infertility; Sperm

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SPERM ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY;

ASEPTIC NECROSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPIDIDYMITIS; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOBEAD TEST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE INFERTILITY; MIXED AGGLUTINATION REACTION; NONHUMAN; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS INJURY; UTERINE CERVIX MUCOSA; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS;

AUTOANTIBODIES; CERVIX MUCUS; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0037206396     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0378(02)00014-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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