Are antisperm antibodies indeed sperm-specific?

Andrologia

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 185-187

  Dorr H ^a   Bohring, C ^a   Krause, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antisperm antibodies; ASA; Autoimmune infertility; Sperm specific antigens

Indexed keywords

SPERM ANTIBODY; SPERM ANTIGEN; AUTOANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; HOMOGENATE; SEMINAL PLASMA; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPERMATOZOON;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 33644661505     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2005.00675.x     Document Type: Article

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