A contraceptive peptide vaccine targeting sulfated glycoprotein ZP2 of the mouse zona pellucida

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 900-907

  Sun, Wei ^a   Lou, Ya Huan ^a   Dean, Jurrien ^b   Tung, Kenneth S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT; GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; EPITOPE MAPPING; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; T LYMPHOCYTE; VACCINATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; CELL FUSING AGENT VIRUS; MURINAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0344457340     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.4.900     Document Type: Article

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