The role of antisperm antibodies during fertilization and for immunological infertility

Chemical Immunology and Allergy

Volumn 88, Issue , 2005, Pages 15-26

  Bohring, Claudia ^a,b   Krause, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CALPASTATIN; CASPASE 3; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIBODY; ZYXIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE FERTILITY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 30744477462     PISSN: 16602242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000087818     Document Type: Review

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