Interferon-α-like biological activity in human seminal plasma, follicular fluid, embryo culture medium, amniotic fluid and fetal blood

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 423-428

  Židovec Lepej, Snježana ^a   Vujisić, Sanja ^b   Stipoljev, Feodora ^b   Mažuran, Renata ^c  

^a Croatia   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; BIOASSAY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDOCENTESIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO CULTURE; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; HUMAN; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 1942500124     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/rd03020     Document Type: Article

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