Antisperm vaccine for contraception

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 378-383

  Naz, Rajesh K ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraception; Infertility; Sperm; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

ANTISPERMATOGENIC AGENT; CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE; SPERM ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG TARGETING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENOMICS; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SPERMATOZOA; VACCINES, CONTRACEPTIVE;

EID: 28644442944     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2005.00331.x     Document Type: Article

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